A bigger compound vocabulary directly improves your puzzle game. Here are a few worth keeping in your back pocket.
“Heyday” — the period of someone’s greatest success. “Windfall” — unexpected good fortune, originally fruit blown from a tree. “Watershed” — a turning point. “Groundswell” — a surge of public feeling. “Makeshift” — a temporary substitute.
Reading the halves of each — “wind” + “fall,” “water” + “shed” — is the same decomposition you do when solving. The more compounds you know, the faster you connect two sides.
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