FUL to the Brim
Word of the week on Monday was Lawson’s ACRASIA – A loss of self- control. It was worth an extra 5 points when I challenged as well.
I had already spotted the list I wanted to do for the B & C Grade Challenge. It seemed a better idea to stay with that rather than doing a blog on triple A.
A Grade Challenge
The words below that I have made up are NOT allowed.
What allowable word does each combination make?
None of them are ‘weird’ words you won’t have heard of, so maybe B and C graders could find most of them this week as well
GROINFUL
BLACKFUL
TRIPEFUL
NOOSEFUL
ROUGHFUL
ROUGH is a sore point for me after the tournament. I had ROUGHIE on my rack which couldn’t fit on the board and spent too much time trying to make a word though the T that had just been played. Didn’t find it because there is nothing there to find, but completely overlooked the D I could have used to make DOUGHIER ☹
B and C Grade Study List
A longer list than usual for you this week because it might be the last for a few weeks. I might do something from Argentina, but that is not definite.
There are only 2 words of 5 letters that end in -FUL. AWFUL and WOFUL.
However, there are 45 words of 6 letters that end in -FUL. I suspect we should all be playing more of the words from the following list. For a change the meanings will mostly be obvious, so they are not included. It is useful to know which ones take an S, so I have put a lower case S where the plural is allowed
AIDFUL – AIMFUL – ARMFULs – ARTFUL – BAGFULs – BARFUL – BIBFULs – BOXFULs – CANFULs – CAPFULs – CUPFULs – DUEFUL – DINFUL – EARFULs – EYEFULs – FITFUL – GUTFULs – HATFULs – IREFUL – JARFULs – JOYFUL – JUGFULs – LAPFULs – LAWFUL – MANFUL – MUGFULs – NETFULs – PANFULs – PENFULs – PEPFUL – POTFULs – RUEFUL – SAPFUL – SINFUL – SOBFUL – TINFULs – TOPFUL – TUBFULs – URNFULs – USEFULs – VATFULs – WAEFUL – WILFUL – WOEFUL
A couple of interesting points:
Although TOPFUL doesn’t take an S it does take a second L for TOPFULL. The only one of those words that can have a -FULL ending. Also, it is surprising that USEFUL takes an S for USEFULS. It doesn’t feel logical to me.
There are some front hooks available as well:
H--ARMFUL
C--ARTFUL
F--EARFUL and T--EARFUL
D--IREFUL
M--USEFUL
Answers to A Grade Challenge
FLOURING
FULLBACK
UPLIFTER
FELONOUS
FURLOUGH
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