Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for science

The synonym for science recorded in this bank is skill, in the sense "ability to produce solutions in some problem domain". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for science

skillnoun, in the sense "ability to produce solutions in some problem domain"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and science carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

ability to produce solutions in some problem domain

Coaching at that level is a science he has clearly mastered.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

skill

Same sentence, swapped: Coaching at that level is a skill he has clearly mastered.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

intelligence
capacity
study

Where science turns up in the game

science is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play science

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so science reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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