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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 24

6/19/2014

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Posting this. Because bunnies. And hammock. And family. Happy summer!
Just arrived at Bennington College for my third residency. Dropped my son off at his grandparents' house today. I leave him in good hands and in good paws. Bennington is incredibly beautiful.
⚛ Units of the Week (including the ones from last week's set)
    Lats: a monetary unit of Latvia
    Lek: a monetary unit of Albania
    Lempira: a monetary unit of Honduras
    Leone: a monetary unit of Sierra Leone
    Lepton: a subatomic particle
    Lepton: a former monetary unit of Greece
    Leu: a monetary unit of Romania
    Lev: a monetary unit of Bulgaria
    Lexeme: a linguistic unit
    Li: a Chinese unit of distance
    Liang: a Chinese unit of weight
    Liard: a former silver coin of France
    Libra: an ancient Roman unit of weight
    Libra: a former gold coin of Peru
    Likuta: a former monetary unit of Zaire
    Lipa: a monetary unit of Croatia
    Lira: a former monetary unit of Italy
    Lira: a monetary unit of Malta
    Lira: a former monetary unit of Israel
    Litas: a former monetary unit of Lithuania
    Liter: a unit of capacity
    Livre: a former monetary unit of France
    Loti: a monetary unit of Lesotho
    Louis: a former gold coin of France
    Luma: a monetary unit of Armenia
    Lux: a unit of illumination
    Magneton: a unit of magnetic moment
    Manat: a monetary unit of Azerbaijan
    Manor: a landed estate or territorial unit
    Maravedi: a former coin of Spain
    Marka: a monetary unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Markka: a former monetary unit of Finland

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week (lots of good ones this week)
    Longhair: an intellectual
    Looby: a large, awkward person
    Loral: pertaining to the space between the eye and bill of a bird
    Lothario: a seducer of women
    Lucifer: a friction match
    Luckie: an old woman
    Lulu: something remarkable
    Lummox: a clumsy person
    Lumpen: an uprooted individual
    Lunt: to emit smoke
    Lupanar: a brothel
    Lurdan: a lazy or stupid person
    Lysin: a substance capable of disintegrating blood cells or bacteria
    Maar: a volcanic crater
    Mabe: a cultured pearl
    Maccaboy: a type of snuff
    Machree: dear
    Madam: a woman who manages a brothel
    Maenad: a female participant in ancient Greek orgies
    Magdalen: a reformed prostitute (like I said in Week 22—lots of names for loose ladies!)
    Mahout: the keeper and driver of an elephant
    Mainline: to inject a narcotic into a major vein
    Makebate: one that encourages quarrels
    Malapert: an impudent person
    Malarkey: nonsense
    Malinger: to feign illness in order to avoid duty or work
    Malkin: an untidy woman
    Mamzer: a bastard
    Marc: the residue remaining after a fruit has been pressed
    Markhor: a wild goat

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Logomach: one given to arguing about words (guilty, particularly about the definition of "know")
    Lookism: discrimination based on physical appearance
    Lookist: one that practices lookism
    Lostness: the state of being lost
    Lotic: pertaining to moving water
    Lucent: giving off light
    Lyard: streaked with gray
    Mahjong: a game of Chinese origin (one of my favorites!)
    Manque: frustrated in the fulfillment of one's aspirations
    Mantic: having powers of prophecy
    Marplot: one that ruins a plan by meddling
(Pages 323–336)
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