Words of the week
Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026
A few words worth knowing from 7 Nectary puzzles, and every pangram, each with its meaning. Today’s puzzle joins the list tomorrow, so nothing here gives it away.
Worth knowing
- weeder
noun. a farmhand hired to remove weeds
From puzzle #29
- appall
verb. strike with disgust or revulsion
From puzzle #32
- inroad
noun. an encroachment or intrusion
From puzzle #30
- inanity
noun. total lack of meaning or ideas
From puzzle #31
- fettle
noun. a state of fitness and good health
From puzzle #34
- reword
verb. express the same message in different words
From puzzle #29
- idealize
verb. consider or render as ideal
From puzzle #33
- effete
adjective. affected, overrefined, and effeminate
From puzzle #34
The week’s pangrams
- Monday, September 28, 2026pargodn
- propaganda
noun. information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
- propaganda
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026wrodfei
- firewood
noun. wood used for fuel
- firewood
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026rodnayi
- ordinary
adjective. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
- ordinary
- Thursday, October 1, 2026inmtyac
- intimacy
noun. close or warm friendship
- intimacy
- Friday, October 2, 2026leapuhv
- upheaval
noun. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
- upheaval
- Saturday, October 3, 2026igadelz
- legalized
verb. make legal
- legalized
- Sunday, October 4, 2026etfvnlu
- eventful
adjective. full of events or incidents
- uneventful
adjective. marked by no noteworthy or significant events
- eventful