NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• coconut tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
• communion (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites
• continuum a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
• count have weight; have import, carry weight
• cumin dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds
• cutout a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out
• intuit know or grasp by intuition or feeling
• intuition instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)
• minimum the least possible
• mount go upward with gradual or continuous progress
• munition supply with weapons
• mutt an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
• mutton meat from a mature domestic sheep
• muumuu a woman's loose unbelted dress
• nonunion not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union
• noun the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
• nuncio (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status
• tout show off
• tuition a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education)
• tunic an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
• tutti
• tutu very short skirt worn by ballerinas
• uncommon not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind
• unction excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
• uncut complete
• union being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
• unit a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
• unmount
• unto