Puzzle of the Day

Today's puzzle is based on a tweet by linguist Dr. Bethan Siân Tovey. How many of the blanks can you fill using the emoji bank? (All the words are related to language and linguistics.)

g＿mar      vo＿ulary      ‍sem＿ics      syn＿      ＿tics      ort＿raphy      ＿ourse      ＿otics      ＿eracy      phi＿ogy

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Check back tomorrow for the answer, a shoutout to all the solvers, and a new puzzle!

Previous puzzle:

I went out into my driveway one morning and saw the following:

What (probably quite amusing) scene was I too late to witness firsthand?

Answer:

My driveway is often visited at night by raccoons. On this occasion, one of them seems to have tried the hammock... and found it a little trickier than expected to stay aboard. I can sympathize; I have fallen off that hammock too.

The biggest obstacle to interpreting this photo was, of course, identifying the pale blue* thing. Charlie thought it looked like an inflatable raft. Anna J suggested that maybe a lizard with wet feet stole someone's mask.

*Yes, the hammock is pale blue in real life, not white. I want to affirm this lest it turn into the new #thedress controversy.

Congrats to Maddy, who solved this with a couple of hints. Several more of you got close, but I don't think I will try to decide what was close enough to count!