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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 13

4/2/2014

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(169–182)

👀  Observations
There were lots of bodily liquids and problems this week. And the obligatory antelope. Also some unanticipated connections. Example:
    Enat: a relative on the mother's side
    Enation: an outgrowth from the surface of an organ (also a band name that perhaps didn't intend to have that meaning)

Enjoy!

⚛ Units of the Week
    Dyad: a pair of units (a meta-unit!)
    Dyne: a unit of force
    Ecu: an old French coin
    Ekpwele/ekuele: a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea
    Electron: an elementary particle
    Elhi: pertaining to school grades 1 through 12
    Empire: a major political unit
    Ephah: a Hebrew unit of dry measure

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
    Dyvour: one who is bankrupt
    Eagre: a tidal flood
    Eclosion: the emergence of an insect larva from an egg (Too much like explosion. I’ve also seen a mosquito hatching, and it’s amazing and revolting)
    Ectopia: congenital displacement of parts or organs (Ouch?!)
    Edh: an Old English letter (ð, makes a sound like th in other)
    Effector: a bodily organ that responds to a nerve impulse
    Effluvia: byproducts in the form of waste
    Egest: to discharge from the body
    Egesta: egested matter
    Eldress: a female elder, a church officer (First used in 1640; the last eldress in the Shaker Society died in 1990)
    Ekistics: a science dealing with human habitats
    Eldritch: weird (I think this is a weird word to describe weird)
    Elver: a young eel
    Emesis: the act of vomiting
    Emetic: a substance that induces vomiting
    Emmet: an ant (The etymology of this from the OED was immense, and had something to do with something called parallel trisyllabic shortening!)
    Empyema: a collection of pus in a body cavity
    Enfeoff: to invest with a feudal estate (Don’t do it! Bad investment!)
    English: to cause a billiard ball to spin around its vertical axis
    Ennead: a group of nine
    Enneagon: a nonagon
    Entellus: a hanuman (East Indian monkey)
    Enuresis: involuntary urination
    Envenom: to put venom into
    Epact: the difference between the lengths of the solar and lunar years (The solar year is 365–366 days and the lunar year is 354–355 days, thus the epact is usually eleven days)
    Epicene: one having both male and female characteristics

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Dwine: to pine or waste away
    Eidolon: a phantom
    Empyreal: pertaining to the sky
    Ennui: a feeling of weariness and discontent
    Ensky: to raise to the skies
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