NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• goth one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
• gout a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
• grog rum cut with water
• grotto a small cave (usually with attractive features)
• grout bind with grout
• grow come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
• growth the gradual beginning or coming forth
• guru a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
• ought
• outgo be or do something to a greater degree
• outgrow grow faster than
• outgrowth the gradual beginning or coming forth
• outthought
• rotgut any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality
• rough ready and able to resort to force or violence
• thorough painstakingly careful and accurate
• though (postpositive) however
• thought the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
• through (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
• throughout from first to last
• thug Acting like a criminal or antisocially but with positive connotations
• tough feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
• trough a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
• wrought shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)