This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).
Yesterday's words:
BURR BURST BUSS BUST BUTT DISTRUST DISTURB DRUB DRUID DUDS DUST RUST STRUT STUB STUD SUBSIST SUBURB SUDS SUIT SURD SUSS SUSURRUS TRUSS TRUST TURBID TURD TUTU
Pangrams: DISTURB
First, I would like to defend the exceptional nature of the word DUDS (n): clothing, personal belongings. Although the word may be used as the plural form of DUD, in this case it represents a concept which cannot be singularized -- you cannot wear a dud, or tell someone to take his dud and go home.
Likewise, SUDS is marked as 'plural in form but singular or plural in construction' in Merriam-Websters'.
SURD (adj): lacking sense, irrational; voiceless (for speech sounds); an irrational number or root in math. I thought it was some neologic abbreviation form, but no, it is an old word coming from the latin root "surdus", meaning "deaf, silent, stupid", or dumb, I suppose.
BUSS (n): kiss
DRUM (v): to beat severely; to berate critically; to defeat decisively
TURBID (adj): thick, opaque, heavy; deficient in clarity or purity; characterized by or producing obscurity.
Another day.
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