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| 25 new of 1007 responses total. |
kentn
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response 350 of 1007:
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Mar 3 15:55 UTC 1994 |
dancer 0 (shaymu)
impugn 4 (rcurl)
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ziggy
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response 351 of 1007:
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Mar 4 02:03 UTC 1994 |
deluge
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kentn
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response 352 of 1007:
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Mar 4 02:38 UTC 1994 |
deluge 2 (ziggy)
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jingle
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response 353 of 1007:
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Mar 4 06:03 UTC 1994 |
ambush
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kentn
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response 354 of 1007:
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Mar 4 18:46 UTC 1994 |
ambush 1 (jingle)
This word *was* in my dictionary...it's apparently not very common, though.
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carson
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response 355 of 1007:
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Mar 4 20:14 UTC 1994 |
re #354: I'll say. I've figured out three (maybe four) letters, couldn't
think of a word with those letters, found "impugn" after the fact,
and am now stuck. Good word, kentn. Can't wait to learn it. :)
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jr
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response 356 of 1007:
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Mar 4 22:04 UTC 1994 |
opaque
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kentn
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response 357 of 1007:
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Mar 5 04:59 UTC 1994 |
opaque 2 (jr)
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rcurl
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response 358 of 1007:
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Mar 5 05:56 UTC 1994 |
oppugn
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kami
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response 359 of 1007:
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Mar 5 06:13 UTC 1994 |
impish
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jasmine
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response 360 of 1007:
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Mar 5 06:36 UTC 1994 |
I really don't get this...
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srw
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response 361 of 1007:
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Mar 5 07:45 UTC 1994 |
rcurl has beaten me to it, Rats.
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kentn
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response 362 of 1007:
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Mar 5 17:32 UTC 1994 |
oppugn 6 (rcurl)
impish 1 (kami)
Ding ding ding ding!!! Rane has it. Good job of clue finding (those
last few guesses made it almost a sure thing, given you've been
following along, even if you couldn't find the word in your spell
checker or whatnot).
jasmine, it took me a while to figure this game out, too. Read
the instructions referred to earlier in this item, and take a look
at the past guesses for a given word -- they have some things in
common and some things not in common. Random guesses work up to
a point (good for finding out what letters are not in the word, I
guess; sometimes you get lucky and find a letter that way). There
*is* a method to this madness that is useful...
I'll leave the letter.match file up on /u/kentn for a while if
you want to see how Rane got this word. (I hope it's been permed
correctly all along...).
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carson
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response 363 of 1007:
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Mar 6 01:30 UTC 1994 |
... now I've learned *TWO* words that end in -pugn...
Grex has increased my vocabulary! It can do the same for YOU!
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vishnu
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response 364 of 1007:
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Mar 6 03:29 UTC 1994 |
with chia-pet.. er..
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rcurl
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response 365 of 1007:
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Mar 6 06:09 UTC 1994 |
American Heritage Dictionary Ver. 3.0.1 got me impugn - that is, after
I had worked out that it was ???ugn. Oppugn isn't in AHD, so it took a
little hand work after opaque came up. I had never seen oppugn before,
but it is a great word. We can add it to general conferencing guidelines:
"Don't be oppugnant." What surprised me is that it comes from a Latin
root (oppugnare). That should not be too much of a surprise, as the
prefix opp. (opposed or opposite) is well known. Thanks, Kent.
The rules for playing Letter.Match are in /u/rcurl/lettermatch.rules
Word posers usually keep the current game word list in a file named
/u/<userid>/letter.match
The written rules are for the 5 letter version. To extend to the 6 letter
version....add one.
I am thinking of a 6 letter word.
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carson
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response 366 of 1007:
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Mar 6 13:49 UTC 1994 |
(oh no! not rcurl again! ;) )
shorts
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ziggy
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response 367 of 1007:
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Mar 6 14:16 UTC 1994 |
boring
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kentn
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response 368 of 1007:
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Mar 6 17:02 UTC 1994 |
benign
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vishnu
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response 369 of 1007:
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Mar 6 23:18 UTC 1994 |
What exactly does oppugn mean?
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kentn
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response 370 of 1007:
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Mar 7 03:07 UTC 1994 |
1: to fight against: assail 2: to call in question
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rcurl
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response 371 of 1007:
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Mar 7 08:00 UTC 1994 |
(There is also a repugn - repugnant, to go along with oppugn - oppugnant.
There is quite a change of pronounciation between the two forms.)
shorts 1 carson (lucky!)
boring 0 ziggy
benign 0 kentn
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vishnu
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response 372 of 1007:
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Mar 7 12:37 UTC 1994 |
pegasi
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kentn
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response 373 of 1007:
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Mar 7 14:24 UTC 1994 |
threat
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rcurl
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response 374 of 1007:
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Mar 7 14:55 UTC 1994 |
please cite a reference for pegasi. Pegasus is a proper noun - and singular.
(If pegasi is not accepted, that leaves kentn guessing twice in a row...
hmmmm....well, pegasi *was* a guess, so I guess....)
threat 0 kentn
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