Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
foster fortune form fornicate fortunate forswear forsworn fortuitous fortify but not enough fortitude to keep guessing...
And then I had the base word for Mike's at #17, but did not add the -ed until 5 more guesses. My excuse is that I got up at 3 a.m. (and not because I wanted to.)
Okay, I'm just going to add past tense forms if I'm stuck from now on--I too had the base word for Mike's but never thought of using the past tense. Sigh!
My last two words were parboil and parcel. I had to try parboiled on the next try. Turns out the only remaining word in TWL unrelated to these two is "parbuckle" (plus -ed). I didn't look at it as a past tense, but rather as an adjective.
to be sure, it is an adjective. but i think the parboil-parboiled balance tips in favor of the verb, whereas (to cite a recent instance) ensconce-ensconced strikes me as leaning heavily towards the adjective. food that is parboiled is defined by the way it has been prepared, but something that is ensconced (in a particular place) is more notable for being ensconced than for having been ensconced.
foster
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form
fornicate
fortunate
forswear
forsworn
fortuitous
fortify
but not enough fortitude to keep guessing...
And then I had the base word for Mike's at #17, but did not add the -ed until 5 more guesses. My excuse is that I got up at 3 a.m. (and not because I wanted to.)
Okay, I'm just going to add past tense forms if I'm stuck from now on--I too had the base word for Mike's but never thought of using the past tense. Sigh!
ReplyDeleteit got me too. i gave up between parboil and parcel.
DeleteI too gave up between parboil and parcel. No excuses on Joon's word, I just wasn't on the right wavelength this morning.
ReplyDeleteMy last two words were parboil and parcel. I had to try parboiled on the next try. Turns out the only remaining word in TWL unrelated to these two is "parbuckle" (plus -ed). I didn't look at it as a past tense, but rather as an adjective.
ReplyDeleteto be sure, it is an adjective. but i think the parboil-parboiled balance tips in favor of the verb, whereas (to cite a recent instance) ensconce-ensconced strikes me as leaning heavily towards the adjective. food that is parboiled is defined by the way it has been prepared, but something that is ensconced (in a particular place) is more notable for being ensconced than for having been ensconced.
Deleteto be sure, opinions may differ on the subject.
and just to be sure, i've overused "to be sure".
DeleteI tend to agree. But I made the guess because I thought MIke might have thought of it as an adjective. But I wasn't sure.
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