Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for thinking
The synonym for thinking recorded in this bank is thought, in the sense "the process of using your mind to consider something carefully". 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 thinking
- thoughtnoun, in the sense "the process of using your mind to consider something carefully"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day thinking is audited in a second meaning.
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Thinking always made him frown.
The true synonym
thought
Same sentence, swapped: Thought always made him frown.
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 thinking is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- search
- knowing
- spiritual
Where thinking turns up in the game
thinking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 thinking
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thinking 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.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thinking carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.