Aorists
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of aorist, referring to grammatical verb forms in classical Greek and Sanskrit that express simple past action without specifying whether it was completed or ongoing.
“The student struggled to distinguish aorists from imperfect tenses in her classical Greek grammar exercises.”
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past tensespreterites
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Wordle
Starts AO which is an unusual vowel pairing, ends in ISTS, contains A, O, I vowels
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Scrabble
All low-to-moderate tile value but a full seven-letter bingo, the AO opening is rare and striking on the board
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