HIGHLIGHTS
- The word Ala has different meanings, but in today’s Connections game, it refers to Alabama, U.S. state abbreviations according to the AP (Associated Press) Style Guide.
- Ark, Miss, and Ore are other words that complete today’s purple, along with Ala, where Ark is Arkansas, a landlocked state in the Southern United States.
- Approximately, Trees, Sizable, as an Amount are other remaining categories for December 26 NYT Connections.
Today’s NYT Connections is back with its 16 new words, each with a different meaning yet somehow aligning with one another.
According to the NYT Connections Companion, today’s game is 2.5/5 in difficulty, which seems to be quite low compared to usual.
Despite this lower difficulty, today’s game features a few words like Ala, Ark, and Ore that might confuse you.
Answers For Today’s NYT Connections With Words Meanings
After closely analyzing today’s NYT Connections words, I picked the first four similar words: About, Around, Like, and Roughly.
Each of these words seems to be synonyms of one another and denotes the same thing, which is “approximate.”
Later, after grouping out these words, I got the yellow group “Approximately.”
Elder And Spruce Meaning In NYT Connections #564
Moving on with the remaining words, I picked words like Plam, Pine, Elder, and Spruce, as each word indicated the Trees.
Elder referred to Sambucus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae commonly called Elder, Elderberry, and Elderflower.
Spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae.
Progressing further with the remaining words, I picked Healthy, Handsome, Respectable, and Tidy and got the blue group “Sizable, As An Amount.“
Ala And Ark Meaning In NYT Connections #564
Analyzing the remaining words, I could not figure out how Ark, Ala, Miss, and Ore were included in the same group.
Later, after help from a friend, I got a hint about word connections, as he said these words referred to U.S. state abbreviations.
Ark is the AP (Associated Press) Style Guide abbreviation for Arkansas, a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.
Meanwhile, Ala stands for Alabama, a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The remaining two abbreviations, Ore and Miss, refer to Oregon and Mississippi, respectively.
After getting the last purple group with the U.S States, I managed to complete December 26 NYT Connections with the following answers;
- Approximately (Yellow): About, Around, Like, Roughly
- Trees (Green): Elder, Palm, Pine, Spruce
- Sizable, As An Amount (Blue): Handsome, Healthy, Respectable, Tidy
- U.S. State Abbreviations, Per AP Style Guide (Purple): Ala, Ark, Miss, Ore
