Can you name the legal 4-letter words in Scrabble that can be formed by joining two US state abbreviations?

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NOTE: Only the State abbreviations in this picture actually are used to form words. (Size is proportional to number of words in which the abbreviation appears.) Words are listed alphabetically, and some words use the same abbreviations twice.
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4-Letter Words from State Abbreviations Quiz

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Created Jul 5, 2011 in Language
Featured Aug 26, 2012
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	Reubs_Chem_Rb:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 15:13 GMT		6 points
	Related by blood or of similar character.

	jago706:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 15:21 GMT		4 points
	Very creative idea for a quiz. Hard, but enjoyable!

	mike847:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 16:24 GMT		0 points
	Though these may be words, very very few people would know them.

	giveupyet:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 17:38 GMT		2 points
	Kept seeing "ARCADE" even though it is clearly not a four-letter word. Nice quiz!

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 18:34 GMT		4 points
	@mike847: I agree, several of these Scrabble words aren't used in everyday language, and there are many I'd never heard before either. English is a big language, and I didn't expect people to get 100% in this quiz. I doubt many will unless they are quick typists and try every 4-letter combo (about 2,000) that can be made from this list.

	BossMonster:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 20:27 GMT		1 point
	It's a good thing it says the postal codes at the top, or I'd still be trying to get VIAL from Virginia.

	urop:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 22:05 GMT		1 point
	Does the color mean anything? Because for the whole quiz, I was thinking that the closer to red, the more it was used at the beginning, and the closer to blue, the more at the end. But then I saw MS and started having second thoughts.

	jago706:	Aug 26th, 2012 at 22:54 GMT		4 points
	According to this quiz, it takes two round-trip flights to get mahi-mahi.

	hpawesomeness189:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 01:29 GMT		1 point
	This quiz was challenging and fun. I kept typing four letter words that that it didn't accept and then I would finally realize that it can't be made from the abbreviations.

	mallorn_hugger:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 01:46 GMT		2 points
	Thank you for making it alphabetical! It gave big clues for which letter combos to try. For example, it was clear there were a bunch of "C" words, so I was able to figure out many words just by using CO/CA to start off my combo. The best part of a quiz is figuring out different strategies to use with them, but some quizzes kind of box you in. Thanks for making this one a little more flexible. :)

	Nafets:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 04:28 GMT		3 points
	The image of used abbreviations was a very nice touch -- a good quiz all around. I think it's worth noting at the top what word list you used (SOWPODS, it looks like) to stave off cries of "not a real word", as well as so word game nerds know what we're working with. :)

	barnztormre:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 12:04 GMT		4 points
	"AKIN" is a legitimate word, albeit a proper noun for a legitimate jerk.

	rockgolf:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 14:10 GMT		2 points
	@urop: There's no specific meaning to the colors. They're just slight variations on red state / blue state. But as mentioned, the size of the word is proportional to the number of times it is used.

	Statto2:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 17:15 GMT		1 point
	I didn't get MAIL but I did get MEMO so I won't get WINY.

	TrishF:	Aug 29th, 2012 at 03:11 GMT		2 points
	Since I'm a "logophile", this is my kind of quiz. I learned quite a few new words. Very well done, rockgolf!

	Andrea881:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 18:09 GMT		1 point
	one good way to do this is to actually write the letters out and then just start going down the line (ILIL, ILNY, ILME, etc). I managed to get 75 before I ran out of time.

	Acid_Snow:	Mar 23rd, 2013 at 16:55 GMT		1 point
	Argh! I've taken this quiz twice now (gone through all 15 minutes), and it still says I have not taken it yet! I don't want to do it again.