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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 26

7/9/2014

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Enjoyable and time-consuming, as usual. There are so many different kinds of everything.
⚛ Units of the Week
    Miskal: an Oriental unit of weight
    Modulus: a number that produces the same remainder when divided into each of two numbers
    Mohur: a former gold coin of India
    Moidore: a former gold coin of Portugal
    Molality: the number of moles of solute per 1,000 grams of solvent
    Molarity: the number of moles of solute per liter of solution
    Mole: the quantity of a compound that has a weight equal to the compound's molecular weight
    Molecule: the smallest physical unit of an element
    Mora: a unit of metrical time in prosody
    Morgan: a unit of distance between genes
    Morgen: a Dutch unit of land area
    Morpheme: a linguistic unit
    Mote: a small particle
    Multiple: the product of a quantity by an integer
    Multiton: weighing many tons
    Muon: a subatomic particle
    Muonium: an electron and a positive muon bound together

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
    Misology: a hatred of debate or reasoning
    Mispoint: to point improperly (because pointing out someone’s mispointing is important)
    Missense: a form of genetic mutation (OED: “Of, relating to, or designating a genetic mutation that alters a codon to code for a different amino acid, resulting in an amino acid substitution in the protein product of the gene; (also) designating such a codon.”)
    Mofette: a noxious emanation from a fissure in the earth (first used in 1770 by W. Hamilton, who apparently was observing Mt. Vesuvius)
    Mog: to move away (not to be conflated with moggy: a cat)
    Moil: to work hard (OED: 1) turmoil 2) a variety of apple 3) a hornless cow 4) steel tool for cutting rock 5) glass left on the blowing-iron after the glassware has been cut or knocked off 6) to wet, moisten. Basically, if you’re going to use a word, use this one and it will most likely cover what you need it to cover)
    Moke: a donkey (OED: also a mesh of a net and a mist or fog)
    Momism: an excessive dependence on mothers (OED: also maternal domination and the practice of fault-finding, from the Middle French mome, a carping critic)
    Momser: a bastard
    Monandry: the condition of having one husband at a time
    Monecian: having both male and female sex organs in the same individual (usually refers to plants)
    Monogyny: the condition of having one wife at a time
    Monteith: a large punch bowl
    Mothery: slimy (OED: probably from Latin mater, meaning the lees or the dregs. The entire etymology is fraught with speculation)
    Motile: one whose mental imagery consists chiefly of inner feelings of action (I’m trying to determine if I am motile. I’m not even sure what it even means, so probably not)
    Mouille: pronounced with the front of the tongue against the palate (is this an onomonopoeia?)
    Moxie: spirit or courage
    Muktuk: whale skin used for food
    Murphy: a potato

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Mislight: to lead astray by its light
    Mistral: a cold, dry wind
    Mizzle: to rain in fine droplets
    Mizzly: characterized by a fine rain
    Moonlet: a small satellite
    Mopery: an act of dawdling
    Motte: a small growth of trees on a prairie
    Mow: to cut down standing herbage (I love this dignified definition)
    Muchness: the quality of being great
    Mucidity: the state of being mucid (musty)


(Pages 351–364)
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