Word of the week: "syzygy," pronounced "SIZZ-a-gee." A spelling-bee favorite, it is an astronomy term for the alignment of three celestial objects. Oddly, the word can also refer to any pair of related things, either similar or opposite. Derived from the Greek for "union," it is a distant cousin of the word "yoke," and the shortest word we know that has three Y's.

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