Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for ilk
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
a kind of person
I can't tolerate people of his ilk.
The true synonym
like
Same sentence, swapped: I can't tolerate people of his like.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for ilk as it is used in the sentence above.
- genus
- grain
- genre
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