Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for recognition
Synonyms for recognition: identification and acknowledgement. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for recognition
- identificationnoun, in the sense "the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering"
- acknowledgementnoun, in the sense "the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged"
All two are filed under recognition's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
A politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces.
The true synonym
identification
Same sentence, swapped: A politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his identification of faces.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot recognition is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- credit
- acknowledgement
- recollection
the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
The partners were delighted with the recognition of their work.
The true synonym
acknowledgement
Same sentence, swapped: The partners were delighted with the acknowledgement of their work.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where recognition stands in the sentence above.
- identification
- realization
- approval
Where recognition turns up in the game
recognition is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 recognition is the trap
- graspnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hold, in the sense "understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something", and recognition is one of the three tiles that lose.
- remunerationnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is compensation, in the sense "money paid for work done; payment or compensation", and recognition is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play recognition
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so recognition reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. recognition carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.