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antarctic

adjective

Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
Opposite, contradictory.
Southern.

anti

noun

A person opposed to a concept or principle.

adjective

Opposed to something.
That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

preposition

Alternative form of anti-

antic

Etymology 1

noun

A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
A caricature.
(often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

verb

To perform antics, caper.
To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.

adjective

Playful, funny, absurd
Grotesque, incongruous.
Grotesque, bizarre

adjective

Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
Designating a style of type.
Embossed without gilt.

Etymology 2

noun

A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

anticipant

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apian

noun

(very rare) A bee.

adjective

Relating to bees.

arcana

noun

Specialized knowledge that is mysterious to the uninitiated.

noun

A mystery or deep secret.
An elixir or secret remedy.

arnica

noun

Any of several plants, of the genus Arnica, considered to have medicinal properties, especially Arnica montana.

arrant

adjective

Utter; complete (with a negative sense).

adjective

Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
Wandering; roving around.
Prone to making errors; misbehaved.
Utter, complete (negative); arrant.

attain

verb

To gain (an object or desired result).
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
To get at the knowledge of.
To reach in excellence or degree.
To reach a person after being behind them.

attractant

noun

Anything that attracts, but especially a substance (such as a pheromone) that attracts insects or other animals.

cairn

noun

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
A cairn terrier.

cancan

noun

A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
(motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

verb

To dance the cancan.

canna

Etymology 1

noun

Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

Etymology 2

noun

A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

cant

Etymology 1

noun

An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
Empty, hypocritical talk.
Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.

verb

To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
To speak in set phrases.
To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.

Etymology 2

noun

Side, edge, corner, niche.
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
A corner (of a building).
An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
A movement or throw that overturns something.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.

verb

To set (something) at an angle.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
To bevel an edge or corner.
To overturn so that the contents are emptied.

Etymology 3

noun

A parcel, a division.

verb

To divide or parcel out.

Etymology 4

adjective

Lively, lusty.

cantata

noun

A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

cantina

noun

A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.
Abbreviated form of cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer

captain

noun

A chief or leader.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
The leader of a group of workers.
The head boy of a school.
A maître d', a headwaiter.
An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.

verb

To act as captain
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.

catnap

Etymology 1

noun

A brief, light sleep.

verb

To take a catnap, to take a short sleep or nap.

Etymology 2

verb

To kidnap a cat.

catnip

noun

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.
Something that causes excitement or interest.

crania

noun

The braincase or neurocranium; that part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.
The upper portion of the skull, including the neurocranium and facial bones, but not including the jawbone (mandible).
The skull.

inapt

adjective

Unapt

incant

verb

To state solemnly, to chant.
To recite an incantation.

intact

adjective

Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied or otherwise damaged
Of animals, not castrated: an intact bull.
Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.

irritant

noun

Any medication designed to cause irritation
A source of irritation.

adjective

Causing irritation or inflammation.
Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

naan

noun

A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

nana

Etymology 1

noun

A banana
A fool

Etymology 2

noun

(term of endearment) one's grandmother
A nanny

narc

Etymology 1

noun

A narcotics squad police officer.

Etymology 2

noun

A police spy or informer.
An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.

verb

To watch; to observe.
To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
To annoy or irritate.
To complain.
(often imperative) To stop.

Etymology 3

verb

(underwater diving) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving).

Etymology 4

noun

A narcissist.

natant

adjective

Floating or swimming (in water)
In a horizontal position, as if swimming

niacin

noun

A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.

nitric

noun

Nitric acid

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.

pain

Etymology 1

noun

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

verb

To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Etymology 2

noun

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

paint

noun

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
The free-throw lane, construed with the.
Paintballs.
A face card (king, queen, or jack).
Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
Makeup.
Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.

verb

To apply paint to.
To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
To create (an image) with paints.
To practise the art of painting pictures.
To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
To depict or portray.
To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
To direct a radar beam toward.

panic

Etymology 1

noun

Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
A kernel panic or system crash.

verb

To feel overwhelming fear.
To cause somebody to panic.
(by extension) To crash.
(by extension) To cause the system to crash.

adjective

Pertaining to the god Pan.
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).

Etymology 2

noun

A plant of the genus Panicum.

panini

noun

A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.

pant

Etymology 1

noun

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
Eager longing.
A violent palpitation of the heart.

verb

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
To heave, as the breast.
To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun

A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun

(Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

participant

noun

One who participates.

adjective

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

patina

noun

A paten, flat type of dish
The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
A gloss or superficial layer.

adjective

Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.

patrician

noun

(antiquity) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
A person of high birth; a nobleman.
One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the Roman patres ("fathers") or senators, or patricians.
Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.

picnic

noun

An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
The meal eaten at such a gathering.
An easy or pleasant task.
An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.

verb

To take part in a picnic.

pinata

noun

(Latin American culture) A doll or other decorated container that is filled with candy and hit with a hammer or a stick by blindfolded children during birthday parties or other celebrations until the candy falls out.

verb

To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy.

pint

noun

A unit of volume, equivalent to:
(metonym) A pint of milk.
(metonymy) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.

pippin

Etymology 1

noun

A seed

Etymology 2

noun

Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)

print

noun

Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
The letters forming the text of a document.
A newspaper.
A visible impression on a surface.
A fingerprint.
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
A plaster cast in bas relief.

verb

To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
To display a string on the terminal.
To produce an observable value.

adjective

Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

rain

noun

Condensed water falling from a cloud.
Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.

verb

To have rain fall from the sky.
To fall as or like rain.
To issue (something) in large quantities.
To reign.

rani

noun

The wife of a rajah.
A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.

rant

noun

A criticism done by ranting.
A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.

verb

To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
To criticize by ranting.
To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
To dance rant steps.

rapini

noun

A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. rapa, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste.

rattan

noun

Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
(by extension) A cane made from this material.

verb

To beat with a rattan cane.

ricin

noun

An extremely toxic protein extracted from the castor bean.

riparian

noun

A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.

adjective

Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.

tactician

noun

A person skilled in the planning and execution of tactics.

taint

Etymology 1

noun

A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
Tincture; hue; colour
Infection; corruption; deprivation
A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

verb

To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
To spoil (food) by contamination.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

Etymology 2

noun

A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

verb

To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Etymology 3

noun

The perineum.

tannic

adjective

Pertaining to, containing, or obtained from tannin.

tannin

noun

Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

tantara

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tantra

noun

A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.

tantric

adjective

Describing Vajrayana Buddhism.
Describing any of several branches of yoga or esoteric traditions rooted in India.

tartan

Etymology 1

noun

A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
The pattern associated with such material.
An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.

verb

To clothe in tartan.

adjective

Having a pattern like a tartan.
Scottish.

Etymology 2

noun

A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
A kind of long covered carriage.

tinct

No Definition Found.

tint

noun

A slight coloring.
A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

verb

To shade, to color.

titan

noun

Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.

titanic

Etymology 1

adjective

Having great size, or great strength, force or power.

Etymology 2

adjective

Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium

train

Etymology 1

noun

Elongated portion.
Connected sequence of people or things.

verb

To practice an ability.
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
To improve one's fitness.
To proceed in sequence.
To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
To draw along; to trail; to drag.
To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

Etymology 2

noun

Treachery; deceit.
A trick or stratagem.
A trap for animals; a snare.
A lure; a decoy.

arancini

noun

A baked rice ball, filled with cheese or other sauce, originally from Sicily.

NYT Spelling Bee Answers and Analysis

Sunday, January 12, 2025

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Maximum Puzzle Score: 359

Number of Answers: 64

Points Needed for Genius: 251

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