Use this utility to check an unfamiliar word while solving. Entries remain in the board’s original order and are explained independently, without arranging them into sets or discussing how any answers relate.
SHREDDER
A machine or tool that cuts paper or another material into many small strips or fragments.
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A person or device that tears, slices or reduces something into shreds.
Informally, someone who performs an activity with exceptional speed or intensity.
HERBAL
Relating to herbs, or made from plants valued for flavor, scent or other practical uses.
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A book or reference work describing plants and their properties.
PATOOT
An informal and playful word for a person’s buttocks or rear end.
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Used affectionately in playful expressions referring to a cute or endearing person.
WHOOPIE CUSHION
A practical-joke cushion that makes a noise resembling flatulence when someone sits on it.
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Used as a comic prop in pranks, sketches and other deliberately silly situations.
GREEN
The color found between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum, common in leaves and grass.
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Covered with growing plants or vegetation.
Inexperienced, untrained or new to a role.
Concerned with protecting the natural environment.
Not fully ripe, seasoned or mature.
FOLK
People in general, or the members of a particular community, region or social group.
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Relating to traditional culture, customs, stories or creative expression.
A style of music rooted in traditional songs and commonly played acoustic forms.
In the plural form “folks,” an informal term for a group of people or for one’s parents.
BUBBLE
A small rounded body of gas enclosed in liquid or surrounded by a thin liquid film.
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A protected or isolated social environment with limited outside contact.
A rapid and potentially unsustainable rise in the price of an asset.
A rounded outline used to contain words or thoughts in an illustration.
As a verb, to rise, flow or make sounds in rounded pockets of gas.
ROUGH
Having an uneven, coarse or irregular surface rather than a smooth one.
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Difficult, unpleasant or physically demanding.
Approximate rather than precise or finished.
A preliminary version of writing, artwork or another planned work.
Violent, harsh or lacking gentleness.
AFTERNOON
The part of the day after noon and before evening.
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Used before another noun for an event, activity or condition occurring during that period.
A conventional greeting used during the later part of the daytime.
RHEOSTATS
Variable electrical resistors used to regulate current by changing the amount of resistance.
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The plural form of rheostat, referring to two or more such regulating devices.
TRADITIONAL
Following customs, beliefs or methods that have continued within a group over time.
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Made or performed in a long-established style.
Conventional or familiar rather than experimental or newly introduced.
Associated with inherited cultural practices or forms.
TIRE
A durable rubber covering fitted around a wheel to provide traction and absorb contact with the road.
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As a verb, to become weary or lose energy.
As a verb, to make another person feel weary.
To lose interest or patience after prolonged exposure or repetition.
SAND TRAP
A prepared hollow or area containing sand that acts as an obstacle during a game of golf.
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Another term for a sand bunker in golf.
HOLISTIC
Considering a whole person, system or problem instead of treating its parts as entirely separate.
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Taking account of several connected factors when evaluating a situation.
Concerned with complete systems and the relationships among their components.
AIR MATTRESS
A portable mattress with an airtight body that is expanded for use and deflated for storage.
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Used as a temporary guest bed, travel bed or compact sleeping surface.
TEE BOX
The designated area from which a golfer begins play on a hole.
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Used informally for the entire marked starting area, including its tee markers.
