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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 42

11/5/2014

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Goats, carriages, flogging . . . ta! Welcome to the T section.
⚛ Units of the Week
    Tachyon: a theoretical subatomic particle
    Tael: a Chinese unit of weight
    Tagmeme: the smallest unit of meaningful grammatical relation
    Taka: a monetary unit of Bangladesh
    Taler: a formerly used German coin
    Tambala: a monetary unit of Malawi
    Tanga: a former monetary unit of Tajikistan
    Tardyon: a subatomic particle that travels slower than the speed of light
    Tauon: an unstable lepton
    Taxon: a unit of scientific classification
    Telome: a structural unit of a vascular plant
    Tenge: a monetary unit of Kazakhstan
    Tenner: a ten-dollar bill
    Tenpence: the sum of ten pennies
    Tenpenny: worth tenpence
    Terabyte: one trillion bytes
    Teraflop: a measure of computing speed
    Terawatt: one trillion watts
    Ternary/Ternate/Ternion: a group of three
    Tesla: a unit of magnetic induction
    Tessera: a small square used in mosaic work
    Teston: a former French coin
    Tetrad: a group of four
    Tetri: a monetary unit of the Republic of Georgia
    Thebe: a monetary unit of Botswana

!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
    Ta: an expression of gratitude
    Tarantas: a Russian carriage
    Tawpie: a foolish young person
    Tawse: to flog
    Tenesmus: an urgent but ineffectual effort to defecate or urinate
    Teniasis: infestation with tapeworms
    Tentoria: the internal skeletons of the heads of insects
    Teratism: a malformed fetus
    Thanatos: an instinctual desire for death

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Syzygy: the configuration of the earth, moon, and sun lying in a straight line
    Talaria: winged sandals worn by various figures of classical mythology
    Tangency: the state of being in immediate physical contact
    Tarn: a small mountain lake
    Tartuffe: a hypocrite
    Telluric: pertaining to the earth
    Tertial: a flight feather of a bird's wing
(Pages 575–588)

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