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Word Choices

Emily Flake

New Yorker Cartoonist

New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake talks with us about choosing the words that go with her pictures.

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Emily Flake

 

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Novelist

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Word Choices: A New Video Series from Merriam-Webster

 

Celebrated writers share their quest to find the right words

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Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game You can make only 12 words. Pick the best ones!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A crossword with a twist
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Spelling Bee Quiz Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli...