NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• agar a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods
• agog highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, etc.
• agora 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel
• alga primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
• algal of or relating to alga
• amalgam an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
• arugula erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
• augur indicate, as with a sign or an omen
• gaga intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
• gala a gay festivity
• gall become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
• gamma a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted
• glam
• glamor alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
• glamour cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
• glom seize upon or latch onto something
• gloom a state of partial or total darkness
• glug make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle
• glum moody and melancholic
• goal the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
• googol a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)
• gram a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
• gramma pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America
• grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
• grog rum cut with water
• groom educate for a future role or function
• guar drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
• gulag a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
• gull make a fool or dupe of
• guru a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
• largo very slow in tempo and broad in manner
• logo a company emblem or device
• logogram a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation
• logroll work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes
• magma molten rock in the earth's crust
• mammogram X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast
• mogul a bump on a ski slope
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