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): BROUHAHA
- Green: HYPERBOLE
- Blue: APOTHECARY
- Purple (hardest): ABRACADABRA
Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme
The yellow group is Hubbub.
Hint 3: Green group theme
The green group is Literary Devices.
Hint 4: Blue group theme
The blue group is Old-timey Occupations.
Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme
The purple group is Words With Five Of One Vowel.
Show all four answers
Hubbub
BROUHAHA, FOOFARAW, HULLABALOO, KERFUFFLE
Literary Devices
HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, ONOMATOPOEIA, OXYMORON
Old-timey Occupations
APOTHECARY, HABERDASHER, SCRIVENER, WAINWRIGHT
Words With Five Of One Vowel
ABRACADABRA, BEEKEEPER, INVISIBILITY, PROTOZOOLOGY
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): Hubbub
- BROUHAHA: A stir; a fuss or uproar.
- FOOFARAW: Fuss over something of little importance.
- HULLABALOO: A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
- KERFUFFLE: (chiefly Commonwealth, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. [from 19th c.]
Green: Literary Devices
- HYPERBOLE: (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
- METONYMY: (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire obje...
- ONOMATOPOEIA: (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
- OXYMORON: (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally fo...
Blue: Old-timey Occupations
- APOTHECARY: (archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made...
- HABERDASHER: A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
- SCRIVENER: A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
- WAINWRIGHT: (historical) A person who builds and repairs wagons.
Purple (hardest): Words With Five Of One Vowel
- ABRACADABRA: Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
- BEEKEEPER: A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.
- INVISIBILITY: The state of being invisible.
- PROTOZOOLOGY: The study of protozoa.
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