SOYLSGAR

glossy, grassy, gross, royal, yoga, glassy, gory, gassy

GLOSSARY

(Not all of these words are found in traditional dictionaries, but they are all found in the Official Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List.)

Aa – rough, cindery lava

Anthem – song of praise

Culti – a cult

Exanthem – a skin eruption

Jive – type of jazz or swing music

Legume – a plant of the pea family

Mementos – things that serve as a reminder of the past

Miaous – meows

Opossum – an arboreal mammal

Orach – a plant with edible spinach-like leaves

Pithy – concise

Potash – a potassium compound

Qi – ‘breath’ in Chinese

Qwertys – a standard typewriter keyboard

Sh – used to urge silence

Taxon – a unit of scientific classification

Urethane – a crystalline compound

Whimsy – an impulsive or fanciful idea

Yegg – a burglar