Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for imagination

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

Imagination reveals what the world could be.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

vision

Same sentence, swapped: Vision reveals what the world could be.

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 imagination as it is used in the sentence above.

resource
design
genius

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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

languagenounspeechthe mental faculty or power of vocal communicationFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line leadnountrackevidence pointing to a possible solutionFoothillsHas a reason line lineverb, noundrawmake a mark or lines on a surfaceFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lostadjectiveconfusedperplexed by many conflicting situations or statementsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line confirmationnouncheckadditional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correctTreeline confuseverbthrowbe confusing or perplexing toTreelineHas a reason line confusionnoundisarraya mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behaviorRidgeline screamingnoun, adjectivescreechingsharp piercing cryFoothills2 senses

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