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• n  the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system

• The combination of factors included syzygy (pronounced syz-uhjee), a twice-monthly condition in which the earth, sun and moon are most closely in alignment; perigee, when the moon .
• Shook the hand of plump Elizabeth Hess, 13, the national spelling champion, and confessed that, as a small boy he had been spelled down on "syzygy.
• Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip.

News & Articles

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• Photos: Supermoon casts its brilliant glow over Earth
  This weekend’s full moon coincided with its closest approach to Earth, a phenomenon known colloquially as a “supermoon.” (In astronomical circles, it’s called a perigee-syzygy moon.) The supermoon is larger ...
  June 23, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance