Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for remembering

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

Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered

Remembering plays tricks on all of us.

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

The true synonym

memory

Same sentence, swapped: Memory plays tricks on all of us.

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 remembering as it is used in the sentence above.

attending
perception
believing

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

planningnounpreparationthe cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happeningTreelineHas a reason line plotnoungamea secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)Treeline2 sensesHas a reason line popularadjectivedemocraticrepresenting or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at largeTreeline principlenounrulea rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex systemTreeline forefrontnounheadthe part in the front or nearest the viewerRidgeline2 senses formnoun, verbkinda category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or qualityFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line foundationnouncreationthe act of starting something for the first timeTreeline2 senses humpnounbumpsomething that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundingsTreelineHas a reason line

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