Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for wits
The synonym for wits recorded in this bank is marbles, in the sense "the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception". 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 wits
- marblesnoun, in the sense "the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and wits carries one sense so far.
the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
I was scared out of my wits.
The true synonym
marbles
Same sentence, swapped: I was scared out of my marbles.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- mentality
- brilliance
- brightness
Where wits turns up in the game
wits is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 wits
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