NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• affiant a person who makes an affidavit
• alfalfa important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
• antifa
• fail fall short in what is expected
• faint lacking conviction or boldness or courage
• fall fall from clouds
• fantail an overhang consisting of the fan-shaped part of the deck extending aft of the sternpost of a ship
• fatal controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
• fiat a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
• filial relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
• fill appoint someone to (a position or a job)
• fillip anything that tends to arouse
• final not to be altered or undone
• finial an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis
• flail move like a flail; thresh about
• flan open pastry filled with fruit or custard
• flap to flutter noisily when moved by the wind
• flat commercially inactive
• flint showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
• flip marked by casual disrespect
• flippant showing inappropriate levity
• flit move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
• infant a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
• infill
• lift make off with belongings of others
• naif marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
• pfft
• pilaf rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
• pitfall an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
• plaintiff a person who brings an action in a court of law
• tiff a quarrel about petty points