awakening
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How awakening fits the hive
Base Score
9
16 with pangram bonus
Unique Letters
7
A E G I K N W
Two-Letter Start
AW
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ING
Useful for cleanup scans
- 9 letters
- 7 unique letters
- AW start
- ING ending
- pangram-shaped
- repeated letters
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- awakening is worth 9 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses exactly seven unique letters, which makes it a pangram candidate when the hive matches those letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2, N x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ING ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the AW start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
verb
To cause to become awake.
"She awakened him by ringing the bell."
verb
To stop sleeping; awake.
"Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face."
verb
To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
"Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!"
verb
To call to a sense of sin.
noun
The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
noun
A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
noun
Being roused into action or activity.
adjective
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
"the awakening city an awakening discourse the awakening dawn."
Related Words
Same Letters
- weakening
- wakening
Synonyms
- awake
- stir
- animate
- energize
- knockup
- uprouse
Antonyms
- fallasleep