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SCRUPLE

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SCRUPLE is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

noun
  1. Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
  2. A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
  3. A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
  4. broadlyobsoleteA very small quantity; a particle.
  5. obsoleteA doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
    • They wouldn't scruple to cheat us if given the opportunity.
  2. intransitiveTo excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
  3. transitiveTo regard with suspicion; to question.
  4. intransitiveobsoleteTo question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
    • I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.