Yesterday's Strands Hints & Answers - Solve NYT Strands

THEME

Most excellent

• Word 1: BOSS

  Definition: a person who is in charge of a worker, group, or organization

  Synonyms: head, head man/woman, top man/woman, chief, principal, director, president, executive, chief executive, chair, chairperson, chairman, chairwoman, manager, manageress, administrator, leader, superintendent, supervisor, foreman, forewoman, overseer, controller, employer, master, owner, proprietor, patron, order about, order around, give orders to, dictate to, impose one's will on, lord it over, bully, push about, domineer, dominate, ride roughshod over, trample on, try to control, pressurize, browbeat, use strong-arm tactics on

• Word 2: CHOICE

  Definition: an act of choosing between two or more possibilities

  Synonyms: option, alternative, possibility, possible course of action, superior, first-class, first-rate, prime, premier, grade A, best, finest, excellent, select, quality, high-quality, top, top-quality, high-grade, of the first water, prize, special, exclusive, hand-picked, carefully chosen, vintage, fine, well chosen, well put, well expressed, rude, abusive, insulting, offensive, unprintable

• Word 3: DANDY

  Definition: a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable

  Synonyms: fop, hipster, trendy, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, excellent, very good, superb, outstanding, magnificent, of high quality, of the highest quality, of the highest standard, exceptional, marvellous, wonderful, sublime, perfect, eminent, pre-eminent, matchless, peerless, supreme, first-rate, first-class, superior, superlative, splendid, admirable, worthy, sterling, fine

• Word 4: GROOVY

  Definition: fashionable and exciting

  Synonyms: in fashion, cool, trendy, hip, hot, on-trend, voguish, in vogue, popular, up to the minute, up to date, modern, trendsetting, all the rage, modish, fashion-conscious, fashion-forward

• Word 5: HYPE

  Definition: extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion

  Synonyms: publicity, advertising, promotion, marketing, puff, puffery, propaganda, exposure, publicize, advertise, promote, push, boost, merchandise, give publicity to, give a puff to, puff, puff up, build up, talk up, beat/bang the drum for

• Word 6: RIGHTEOUS

  Definition: morally right or justifiable

  Synonyms: good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent, worthy, justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, just, rightful

• Word 7: SWELL

  Definition: (especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid

  Synonyms: expand, bulge, distend, become distended, inflate, become inflated, dilate, become bloated, bloat, blow up/out, puff up, balloon, fatten, fill out, tumefy, intumesce, grow larger, grow greater, grow, enlarge, increase, expand, rise, wax, mount, escalate, accelerate, step up, accumulate, surge, multiply, proliferate, snowball, mushroom, skyrocket, make larger, make greater, enlarge, increase, increase in size/scope, expand, augment, boost, build up, accelerate, step up, multiply, grow loud, grow louder, become louder, amplify, intensify, heighten, increase, rise, growth, expansion, escalation, acceleration, surge, stepping-up, proliferation, snowballing, mushrooming, skyrocketing, billow, billowing, undulation, surge, surging, wave, roll, rolling, bulge, bulging, rush, deluge, movement, fop, hipster, trendy, man about town, bright young thing, glamour boy, excellent, marvellous, wonderful, splendid, magnificent, superb, first-rate

• Spangram: THATSCOOL

  Definition: undefined