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While we are focused more on meanings than hints in this story, sometimes learning that many of the words have completely unrelated meanings is a clue in and of itself. Connections frequently includes clues that involve words within words and other visual clues.
Alternator meaning
An electrical generator.
Battery meaning
A device that produces electricity.
Engine meaning
A machine that changes energy into movement.
Radiator meaning
A device that heats a space.
Control meaning
To have power over something or someone.
Escape meaning
To get away.
Shift meaning
A sudden change.
Space meaning
An open area.
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Chopped meaning
Cut into pieces.
Greek meaning
From Greece.
House meaning
A dwelling.
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Wedge meaning
A dividing force.
At last meaning
Finally.
Herald meaning
To proclaim an event.
Hydrant meaning
A public water pipe.
Tritone meaning
A musical interval made of three tones.
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