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:
11.sax 12.schedule 13.schuss 14.sea 15.scud 16.scion 17.score 18.scoff 19.scirocco 20.scissors ....and when I get to 20, I throw in the towel. I thought of 'sclera' but believed it had been used before and did not go further. I guess 'sclerotic' is still in play.
I sometimes guess on the basis of which word would annoy me the most. I had change-channel, and I immediately went to changeling ("that would be just my luck"), without realizing that there appeared to be no unrelated words in between (going by the Mathematica dictionary I just started using for post-mortem). It was similar for sclerosis. I was at scintilla-scofflaw, and tried sclerotic first, and then went straight to sclerosis, even though there were scion & scissors and related words in between.
11.sax
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13.schuss
14.sea
15.scud
16.scion
17.score
18.scoff
19.scirocco
20.scissors
....and when I get to 20, I throw in the towel. I thought of 'sclera' but believed it had been used before and did not go further. I guess 'sclerotic' is still in play.
I sometimes guess on the basis of which word would annoy me the most. I had change-channel, and I immediately went to changeling ("that would be just my luck"), without realizing that there appeared to be no unrelated words in between (going by the Mathematica dictionary I just started using for post-mortem). It was similar for sclerosis. I was at scintilla-scofflaw, and tried sclerotic first, and then went straight to sclerosis, even though there were scion & scissors and related words in between.
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DeleteI *love* that idea. It may help me.
I bow to thee.
Strange, the Mathematica dictionary doesn't have scirocco. My Mac's OAD says it's a variant of sirocco.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I had sclera and scleral but couldn't get to sclerosis. Oh well. Better luck tomorrow, I hope.
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