A Front Hook

In my second streamed game last weekend the word CRED was put on the board. I simply did not think of the A hook to go in front of it even though if someone had pointed it out, I was 100% sure ACRED was a word. It was in a spot for a great scoring opportunity as well. The game had a somewhat farcical finish because although Ryan had thought of the possibility when he played it, he wasn’t sure of it and eventually talked himself out of using it. So the great scoring opportunity just sat there through about 5 turns for each player and nobody used it.

A Grade Challenge

Some 7 letter words for you to find. All the answers can have an A hooked in front of them. When you go to the answers there is a story about one of the words.

A     D     E     N     T     U     V

A      I      I     P     R     S     T

C     D     E     E     P     S     T

C     E      I      I     M     S     S

C     E      I     P     R     T     Y

B and C Grade Study List

All these words take an A as a front hook, I have chosen slightly unusual words so that maybe you will learn two words for the price of one. I will only give the meaning for the shorter word, not the new word that is formed by hooking the A in front

BAFT – A kind of coarse fabric

BRIN – The rib of a fan

BUNA – A kind of artificial rubber

GLEY – To squint

JUGA – Pairs of opposite leaves (plural of JUGUM)

LEGGE – The dregs of the people

LOWE – To blaze

MAUT – A Scottish word for malt

MITY – Infested with mites

MORT – A note on a hunting horn to announce a kill

PODAL – Pertaining to the feet

REDD – To put in order

TWIXT – Between

XENIC – pertaining to a culture medium with microbes

ZOIC – Pertaining to animals

ZYME – A ferment or enzyme

The last word I will mention is MULING. The word MULE might seem like a noun, but it can be used as a verb. That verb can take a front hook of an E, and then that word can take a front hook of an A. You might start by putting MULING on the board, then use an E to make it EMULING, and finally use an A to make it AEMULING. Both EMULE and AEMULE mean to emulate something

Answers to A Grade Challenge

VAUNTED – Boasted

PIARIST – Member of a Christian group that educates the poor

SPECTED – A non-standard form of expected

SEISMIC – Relating to earthquakes

PYRETIC – Pertaining to fever

In the Trans-Tasman Russell Honeybun started with PYRETIC against me on the first turn. If had known APYRETIC it might have changed the game, because I had ANEURIN and believed there was nowhere to play it

Happy Scrabbling

Patrick