NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• aboard on first or second or third base
• abroad in a foreign country
• adobo a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice
• afar (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
• afford be the cause or source of
• afro a rounded thickly curled hairdo
• alfalfa important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
• aloof remote in manner
• arbor tree (as opposed to shrub)
• ardor feelings of great warmth and intensity
• baba a small cake leavened with yeast
• bald lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
• ball to live very well
• ballad a narrative poem of popular origin
• baobab African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
• barb provide with barbs
• bard put a caparison on
• barf eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
• blab divulge confidential information or secrets
• boar an uncastrated male hog
• board get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
• boba
• bola a rope with weights attached to the ends; is thrown to entangle the legs of an animal; of South American origin
• bollard a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines)
• brad fasten with brads
• broad showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
• dollar a United States coin worth one dollar
• doodad something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
• dorado
• drab causing dejection
• fall fall from clouds
• falloff a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
• farad the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
• farro
• flab loose or flaccid body fat
• floorboard a board in the floor
• flora (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
• floral resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers
• foal give birth to a foal
• fora
• labor strive and make an effort to reach a goal
• lard prepare or cook with lard
• load transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
• loaf be about a place without any apparent purpose
• loofa the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
• oddball a person with an unusual or odd personality
• offal viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
• offload transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data
• oral a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression
• radar measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects
• road an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
• roar laugh unrestrainedly and heartily
• rollbar