NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• eggnog a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor
• enemy an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
• gene (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
• genome the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
• gnome a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
• gnomon indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial
• gone dead
• gong sound a gong
• goon an aggressive and violent young criminal
• goony a variety of albatross with black feet
• hegemon a leading or paramount power
• hegemony the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others
• henge
• homogeny (biology) similarity because of common evolution
• homonym two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
• homonymy the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning
• hone sharpen with a hone
• honey of something having the color of honey
• honeymoon spend a holiday after one's marriage
• hymen a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin
• hymn sing a hymn
• money wealth reckoned in terms of money
• moneymen
• mono designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel
• mononym
• moon expose one's buttocks to
• moony dreamy in mood or nature
• nene
• neon a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
• none not any; entity, negative pronoun
• noon the middle of the day
• omen indicate, as with a sign or an omen
• yeomen