Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 14

No random patterns that this random pattern-discerning human could observe this week. Reading the Scrabble Dictionary like this is admittedly a grab-bag of words strung together only by the alphabet, which itself is a muddled chaos of history and mixed cultures. On that cheerfully chaotic thought, enjoy these factoids (a word appropriately included in this week's mix). Today I've included a test for you to see how well you know random words.

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⚛ Units of the Week
    Exabyte: one quintillion bytes
    Exahertz: one quintillion hertz
    Eyrir: a monetary unit of Iceland
    Fanega/fanga: a Spanish unit of dry measure
    Fanegada: a Spanish unit of area
    Farad: a unit of electrical capacitance
    Faraday: a unit of electricity
    Farthing: a former British coin

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week

This week you get to test yourself. See if you can match up the word with its definition. The answer can be found by hovering your mouse over the word. What was your score out of 16?

1. Estivate

2. Euro

3. Eurybath

4. Exanthem

5. Exergue

6. Eximious

7. Explicit

8. Exurbia

9. Eyesome

10. Eyre

11. Fagin

12. Falderal

13. Fane

14. Fantod

15. Fard

16. Farrow

a. a large kangaroo

b. to apply cosmetics to

c. a person who instructs others in crime

d. a space on a coin

e. nonsense

f. a residential area lying beyond the suburbs of a city

g. pleasant to look at

h. an emotional outburst

i. to give birth to a litter of pigs

j. an organism that can live in a wide range of water depths

k. a journey

l. a statement formerly used at the close of a book

m. a temple

n. to spend the summer

o. a skin eruption

p. excellent

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Esthesia: the ability to receive sensation
    Eurythmy: harmony of movement or structure
    Evulse: to extract forcibly
    Exilic: pertaining to exile
    Exult: to rejoice greatly
    Eyestalk: a stalklike structure with an eye at its tip
    Fairyism: the quality of being like a fairy

(Pages 183–196 of the OSPD)