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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 15

4/16/2014

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Lotsa nice flowers this week. I like not being totally and completely ignorant about flowers.

Also, MAKE SURE GET YOUR INSULTS RIGHT: a
fleabag is an inferior hotel; a fleapit is a run-down movie theater. Very important. See the rest of today's words for more great insults. That no one will ever understand. ("Ho! What felonry is this, ye feculent flimflammers!")
⚛ Units of the Week
    Fiftyish: being about fifty years old (not going to put all numbers like this, ordinal, cardinal, or -ish words, but one -ish deserves recognition)
    Fil: a coin of Iraq and Jordan
    Finmark: a monetary unit of Finland
    Firkin: a British unit of capacity
    Fiver: a five-dollar bill
    Flocculi: small, loosely aggregated masses
    Floccule: a tuft-like mass
    Florin: a former gold coin of Europe
    Fluidram: a unit of liquid capacity

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
    Fecula: fecal matter
    Feeb: a wimp; a weak or ineffective person
    Figurant: a ballet dancer who dances only in groups (somehow this seems a sad word)
    Firebug: an arsonist
    Fireplug: a hydrant
    Fireship: a burning ship sent among the enemy's ships (which is very vivid in my mind; is this in some epic movie that I haven’t seen? It should be)
    Fistic: pertaining to pugilism (“the art or practice of fighting with the fists”)
    Flashing: sheet metal used in waterproofing a roof
    Flatus: intestinal gas
    Flehment: to inhale with the mouth open and upper lip curled (wow! This is specific!)
    Floc: to aggregate into floccules (naturally!)
    Flunky: a servile follower

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Favonian: pertaining to the west wind
    Feculent: foul with impurities
    Felinity: the quality of being catlike
    Felonry: the whole class of felons
    Fishless: having no fish
    Flamer: one that flames
    Flimflam: to swindle
    Flubdub: pretentious nonsense
(Pages 197–210)
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