that IS an odd collection of words.
I have no shame, and will post another practice one. Here it is illustrated that having similar words (gruel and grill) makes it a lot easier. I was really stuck on what turned out to be gruel, but grill looked like a decent guess for the lower right, and voila! it gave me gruel as a bonus.
Practice Quordle
SHORT - GRUEL
CABLE - GRILL
pretty good - 20 of better moves is good for me
Practice Quordle
APTLY - THING
HEAVY - ASHEN
Daily Quordle #24
Heh, i almost always take all mine guesses but win.
Daily Quordle #25
I had a hard time with that last word. There was no other reasonable guess with 3 to go, but I didn’t notice it until the end
Daily Quordle #25
Same stats there…
Daily Quordle #25
Daily Quordle #25
I get impatient and waste guesses too often. 
Daily Quordle #25
Ooh! But I don’t get 7s very often!
Daily Quordle #25
Yeah, i so didn’t see it that i played a “word” i don’t know in round 8. There were actually two legal guesses in round 9 (yes, i checked every possibility) but decided to go with a word that i recognize as a word.
Daily Quordle #25
Daily Quordle #25
That lower left box was tough given the letters I had and had ruled out
Daily Quordle #25
Agreed. Having the second letter helped but still took a few minutes to find a word that would work with what I had left.
Practice Quordle seems to like words that end in I. I’ve had SWAMI twice.
Daily Quordle #25
Fortunately, despite having 4 letters, one exact, at the upper right on try 1, I resisted trying to take a shot at it, instead using 5 new letters, including the one I would have added to upper right. Since that letter was wrong, I got much more help this way, even though I would have gotten some help on the arrangement of the other letters had I swung for the fences.
Practice Quordle
STALK - STORY
BRASH - PEACH
Second 6 on practice! 
Daily Quordle #26
Pretty good for the words, I think.
