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This is a gemlog for the SpellBinding puzzle, in which you construct words using the specified letters (each word must contain the anchor letter).
CITIFY EFFECT EFFECTIVE EFFECTIVITY EFFETE FEET FETE FICTIVE FIEF FIFE FIFTY FIVE IFFY TEFF TIFF VIVIFY
Pangram: EFFECTIVITY
A nice compact puzzle...
CITIFY: urbanize.
EFFETE: 1:no longer furtile; 2: weakened, delicate; 3:effeminate. I was unaware of the 'no longer fertile' meaning, which seems to go against the grain of 3, which I've encountered a number of times.
FETE is of course a festival or a large/lavish party along with a verb form.
FICTIVE is fake, imagined or fictional.
TEFF is an ethiopian cereal grass, used for making injera, an amazing fermented flatbread.
VIVIFY - animate, enliven, vitalize, as expected.
Another day.