Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.
Hint 1: One word from each group
Each of these words belongs to a different group.
- Yellow (easiest): BAND
- Green: ABSORB
- Blue: EXERCISE
- Purple (hardest): AGENDA
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is People Hired For An Event.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Internalize.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Ways To Practice Self-care.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Things That Are Pushed Metaphorically.
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People Hired For An Event
BAND, FLORIST, PHOTOGRAPHER, PLANNER
Internalize
ABSORB, DIGEST, PROCESS, TAKE IN
Ways To Practice Self-care
EXERCISE, JOURNAL, MEDITATE, UNPLUG
Things That Are Pushed Metaphorically
AGENDA, ENVELOPE, LIMITS, LUCK
About this puzzle
- Edited by Wyna Liu
- Groups are listed from easiest (yellow) to hardest (purple).
Connections deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.
Yellow (easiest): People Hired For An Event
- BAND: A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
- FLORIST: A person who sells flowers.
- PHOTOGRAPHER: (photography) One who takes photographs, typically as an occupation.
- PLANNER: A notebook or software in which one keeps reminders of items such as appointments, tasks, projects, and contacts.
Green: Internalize
- ABSORB: (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swa...
- DIGEST: (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive e...
- PROCESS: A series of events leading to a result or product.
- TAKE IN: (transitive) To receive.
Blue: Ways To Practice Self-care
- EXERCISE: (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- JOURNAL: A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
- MEDITATE: (intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
- UNPLUG: (transitive) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket.
Purple (hardest): Things That Are Pushed Metaphorically
- AGENDA: A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- ENVELOPE: A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- LIMITS: A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- LUCK: Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
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