Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 3 March, 2023

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

Letters: v  a  c  e  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC8 β€” to cause to function; actuate; crank (up); drive; move sounds like aggravate, motivate, re**
  2. AC6 β€” being in effective operation; having much high-spirited energy and movement; involved in often constant activity; alive; functional sounds like octave

AT

  1. AT9 β€” having the mind fixed on something; given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others; paying close attention usually for the purpose of anticipating approaching danger or opportunity; absorbed; deep sounds like authentic, in*, offensive, tenting

AV

  1. AV5 β€” sounds like alien
  2. AV6 β€” to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; fly; glide; plane; soar

CA

  1. CA4 β€” sounds like comma, java, lava
  2. CA4 β€” a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; as in submit, yield; to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure; antre; cavern sounds like cove, crave, curve
  3. CA6 β€” something (such as a piece of advice) that should be remembered when one is doing or thinking about something; admonishment; admonition; alarm; alert sounds like aviator, cleat, combat, copycat, covert

CI

  1. CI5 β€” sounds like pivot, rivet
  2. CI5 β€” relating to a city, town, or country or to the people who live there; federal; municipal; civil; national sounds like cynic

EA

  1. EA4 β€” sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EV

  1. EV4 β€” not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
  2. EV5 β€” something that happens; something that might happen; a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; affair; circumstance sounds like invent, vent
  3. EV5 β€” to force (someone) to leave a place; deforce; deport; displace; dispossess sounds like addict, civic, depict, edict, effect
  4. EV7 β€”
  5. EV6 β€” to make known (something abstract) through outward signs; bespeak; betray; communicate; declare sounds like immense, mince, prince, quince, rinse

IN

  1. IN10 β€” sounds like deactivate
  2. IN8 β€” slow to move or act; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; dull; inert; lethargic sounds like active, effective, elective, enact
  3. IN11 β€” as in absent, heedless; absent; absentminded; abstracted; heedless sounds like attentive
  4. IN9 β€” something that arouses action or activity; boost; encouragement; goad; impetus
  5. IN10 β€” readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity; without aid or support; action; aggressiveness; ambition
  6. IN9 β€” harsh insulting language; marked by harsh insulting language; abuse; billingsgate; fulmination
  7. IN6 β€” to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; concoct; construct; contrive; cook (up) sounds like event
  8. IN9 β€” showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing; having the skill and imagination to create new things; artful; clever; creative
  9. IN6 β€” to request the presence or participation of; to act so as to make (something) more likely; a request for the presence or participation of someone at a specified time and place; ask; bid
  10. IN7 β€” as in guest, visitor; caller; drop-in; frequenter; guest sounds like annuity, cavity, devotee, enmity, entity

NA

  1. NA5 β€” lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy sounds like achieve, arrive, chive, dive, eave
  2. NA7 β€” the quality or state of being simple and sincere; readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence; artlessness; greenness; guilelessness sounds like novel, novelty, novice
  3. NA6 β€” belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining; being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; aboriginal; autochthonous sounds like active, bated, dated, furtive, knotted
  4. NA4 β€” sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave

TE

  1. TE9 β€” determined by something else; conditional; contingent (on or upon); dependent; subject (to) sounds like sensitive

TI

  1. TI8 β€” sounds like litigate

VA

  1. VA6 β€” lacking contents that could or should be present; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not expressing any emotion; bare; blank sounds like agent, bacon, latent, nascent, patient
  2. VA6 β€” to put an end to by formal action; to remove the contents of; abate; abolish; abrogate sounds like baked, locate, placate, shakeout, skate
  3. VA9 β€” sounds like fascinate
  4. VA7 β€” sounds like accede, taxi, waxy
  5. VA4 β€” having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  6. VA4 β€” sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VE

  1. VE4 β€” a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; locution; manner; mode sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  2. VE4 β€” to find emotional release for; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to throw or give off; loose; release sounds like bent, cent, dent, e**, lent

VI

  1. VI4 β€” immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society; a defect in character; the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money; corruption; debauchery sounds like dice, ice, lice, nice, rice
  2. VI4 β€” to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; bomb; collapse sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
  3. VI7 β€” to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality; blemish; darken sounds like initiate, officiate
  4. VI6 β€” sounds like apace, avail, averse, debase, vase

activate, active, attentive, avian, aviate, cava, cave, caveat, civet, civic, eave, even, event, evict, evictee, evince, inactivate, inactive, inattentive, incentive, initiative, invective, invent, inventive, invite, invitee, naive, naivete, native, nave, tentative, titivate, vacant, vacate, vaccinate, vaccine, vain, vane, vein, vent, vice, vine, vitiate, vivace