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I hope wordcrafter doesn't mind my crashing the Vocabulary Forum but it seems to be the best place for this. I sometimes play scrabble against my computer. Usually I have the computer skill level set to 15. I decided to play at 2o, the maximum level and in consecutive games it game up with all of the following. MOZO SMAZE US - a smokey haze, less damp than a fog KEX any of several large hollow stemmed umbelliferous plants TEWED FAZES disconcert, worry, disturb FETUS Alternate spelling for foetus RAYAH a non-Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire AR the letter "R" ONAGER a Persian variety of wild ass OCHONE Scottish or Irish: an expression of grief UMIAQ alt. spelling for umiak or oomiak - an Eskimo boat DISTAL Anatomy (of muscle, bone, limb etc) situated furthest from the centre YAUTIA any of several Wast Indian plants of genus Xanthosoma TITRE the concentration of a solution as determined by titration FEME Law: a woman or wife INTITULE Parliamentary procedure: to entitle AVO The two in boldface I haven't found in the dictionary. Strange to say I lost both games and reset the computer skill level to 15 where I sometimes win. Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life ? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off ? Read all about my travels around the world here. Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog. | ||
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Never did like high-level Scrabble, Stefan Fatsis' Word Freak notwithstanding, for precisely that reason. The players aren't dealing with words, just with entries in a well-defined list. No, make that one of two lists, one for US Scrabble, and the other for international Scrabble. Might as well be made up of "@#$%^&*()..." as "abcdefghi..". A few reasonably competent players even speak no English at all, but they're good at list memorization and manipulation. There is some overlap with the language used by most of us most of the time, but there really doesn't need to be. | |||
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