Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for promise
The synonym for promise recorded in this bank is hope, in the sense "grounds for feeling hopeful about the future". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for promise
- hopenoun, in the sense "grounds for feeling hopeful about the future"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and promise carries one sense so far.
grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
There is little or no promise that he will recover.
The true synonym
hope
Same sentence, swapped: There is little or no hope that he will recover.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where promise stands in the sentence above.
- apprehension
- foretaste
- type
Where promise turns up in the game
promise is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where promise is the trap
- expectancynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is anticipation, in the sense "something expected (as on the basis of a norm)", so promise is there to be ruled out.
- suspectverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is surmise, in the sense "imagine to be the case or true or probable", and promise is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play promise
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so promise reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
promise is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.