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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 8

2/26/2014

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PictureMay 1, 2011, Majuro Atoll
(99–112)

👀 Observations
Included this week was coconut and coir, a fiber from coconut husks. I learned a tremendous amount about the coconut while we lived in the Marshall Islands. I learned how to husk and clean and crack and grate. It's a remarkable amount of work. And a remarkable food. You can even use it as a float if you've capsized.

There were lots of good sounds in this section: clump, clunk, cluck, clink, clomp, clonk, clop, click, clank, clap, clang, clack. That's an impressive array of sounds.


⚛ Units of the Week
    Chiao: a monetary unit of China
    Chiliad: a group of one thousand
    Chon: a monetary unit of South Korea
    Chronon: a hypothetical unit of time
    Cicero: a unit of measure in printing
    Classon: a subatomic particle

!!! Words of the Week
    Childing: pregnant (better than “preggers!”)
    Chin, v.: to hold with the chin
    Chiru: a Tibetan antelope (so many antelope!)
    Chowchow: a relish of mixed pickles in mustard
    Chucky: a little chick
    Cicisbeo: a lover of a married woman
    Cineast: a devotee of motion pictures
    Claque: a group of hired applauders (hired mourners, hired marauders, hired applauders)
    Clowder: a group of cats
    Cloy: to gratify beyond desire
    Cnida: a stinging organ in a jellyfish (Andrew and I are also familiar with these from the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei)

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Chinook: a warm wind
    Chinwag: to gossip
    Chthonic: pertaining to the gods of the underworld
    Chubasco: a violent thunderstorm
    Chuckler: one that chuckles
    Chumship: friendship
    Clerkdom: the status or function of a clerk (if you can’t have a kingdom, at least try for a clerkdom)
    Cloudlet: a small cloud
    Clubable: sociable
    Coendure: to endure together
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