This week, for instance, "The Mint" asked viewers for a word that would complete four other words.
"The word 'amnesty' was always used as a word that would be compelling in and of itself," Mr. Zolbe said.
"Untrodden" looks like a word that would take glossing: it indicates a place where people do not go.
"That isn't a word that would be important in our dressing-room chat," he said.
Patricia, always in a league of her own, wanted a word that would 'honour the radiator'.
I don't know if "relaxed" is a word that would describe summer at my house.
"He was trying to find a word that would have resonance legally.
Delicate is not a word that would describe most brown rice.
Diplomats said Wednesday that the two sides had been searching for a word that would sound like an apology in Turkish, but not in Hebrew.
Brin actually meant to say "embarrassing" – a word that would fit well enough into the sentence he used – and had an abrupt rush of testosterone to the brain.
If there were a concordance to Mailer's correspondence, a word that would turn up high on the list would be "existential," not owing to any special fealty to Jean-Paul Sartre but to Mailer's own inclinations.
