Synonym a Day

Edley . . . thought it kismet when he won his first U.S. [Scrabble] championship in 1980, but the suspicion that he was nothing but a tool for fate left him depressed—“like a higher power was leading me, and I didn’t have much to do with it,” Edley says. (S. I. Price, “Scrabble: Your Words Against Mine,” Sports Illustrated, 12/18/1995, p. 106.)