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NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 2 December, 2022

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: v  a  i  l  r  t  y

  • Total Answers: 24
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AR

  1. AR7 — the act of coming upon a scene synonyms—advent, appearance, coming, incoming sounds like—rival

AV

  1. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose synonyms—account, mileage, service, serviceability, serviceableness sounds like—assail, unveil, veil
  2. AV6 — a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) synonyms—abstract, embodier, embodiment, epitome, externalization sounds like—actor, after, amateur, aster, hotter
  3. AV6 — a place for keeping birds confined sounds like—vary, very

LA

  1. LA5 — a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects synonyms—naiad, nymph
  2. LA6 — a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects synonyms—naiad, nymph sounds like—marvel
  3. LA4 — a decorative lamp constructed of a transparent glass container filled with liquid and wax that is heated by an incandescent bulb which melts the wax and causes it to form random moving shapes within the liquid sounds like—java

RI

  1. RI5 — one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value; one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict; one who strives for the same thing as another synonyms—coequal, compeer, coordinate, counterpart, equal sounds like—ar*, revel
  2. RI7 — an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another synonyms—ball game, battle, combat, competition, conflict sounds like—revelry

TR

  1. TR7 — a state of great suffering of body or mind; very hard or unpleasant work; the act or process of giving birth to children synonyms—affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation sounds like—avail, prevail
  2. TR6 — as in nonsense, trash synonyms—bunk, claptrap, drivel, follies, fribbles
  3. TR7 — lacking importance; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention synonyms—fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential
  4. TR10 — something of little importance; the quality or state of being unimportant synonyms—bagatelle, child's play, frippery, nonproblem, nothing sounds like—reality
  5. TR9 — lacking importance; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention synonyms—fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential

VA

  1. VA4 — to be unlike; to not be the same; to make different in some way; to occur within a continuous range of variation synonyms—contrast, differ, alter, change, make over sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

VI

  1. VI4 — a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids sounds like—dial, vowel
  2. VI5 — a large impressive residence synonyms—castle, château, estate, hacienda, hall
  3. VI5 — a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease: such as; an antigenic preparation of a typically inactivated or attenuated pathogenic agent (such as a bacterium or virus) or one of its components or products (such as a protein or toxin); a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)
  4. VI8 —
  5. VI7 — of, relating to, or caused by a virus; quickly and widely spread or popularized especially by means of social media sounds like—eerily
  6. VI8 — the set of qualities considered appropriate for or characteristic of men synonyms—machismo, macho, manhood, manliness, masculinity sounds like—ability, agility, fertility, morality, variety
  7. VI5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; impossible to do without synonyms—dynamic, energetic, flush, gingery, lusty sounds like—litle, title
  8. VI8 — the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity; active strength of body or mind synonyms—animation, briskness, exuberance, jazziness, liveliness sounds like—fatality, finality, totality
  9. VI7 — to a great degree synonyms—achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully sounds like—mightily

arrival, avail, avatar, aviary, larva, larval, lava, rival, rivalry, travail, trivia, trivial, triviality, trivially, vary, vial, villa, viral, virality, virally, virility, vital, vitality, vitally