NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• agave tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
• eave
• elevate give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
• evolve work out
• gavage feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat
• gave emit or utter
• gavel a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
• gavotte music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte
• glove the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
• lava rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface
• lavage washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water
• lave wash one's face and hands
• leave remove oneself from an association with or participation in
• levee a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
• level of the score in a contest
• lovage herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds
• love have a great affection or liking for
• oval rounded like an egg
• ovate rounded like an egg
• vagal of or relating to the vagus nerve
• vale a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
• valet serve as a personal attendant to
• valve a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
• veal meat from a calf
• vegetal (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
• vegetate engage in passive relaxation
• velvet resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface
• veto vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
• vlog to present a vlog
• vole any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
• volt a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it
• voltage the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
• vote express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote