THINKING

Jan 6th Committee

If you did not get to see last night's presentation, try to see a copy because it is something you will never forget.

Spelling Bee

A little while ago the 94th episode of the Scripps National Spelling Bee was won by 14-year-old Harini Logan from Texas.

To get to her win, she had to spell some pretty tough words, including:

suffrutescent = having a base that is somewhat woody and does not die each year

emancipatory = giving people social or political freedom and rights

kathakali = lyric dance of Southern India

de rigueur = required by etiquette or current fashion

kente = brightly colored, banded material made in Ghana

kwashiorkor = a form of malnutrition

ikebana = Japanese art of flower arrangement

meuniere = cooked or served in lightly browned butter with lemon juice and parsley

wiliwili = a flowering tree in Hawaii

obvertend = a proposition upon which the operation of obversion (look it up in your logic textbook) is performed.

palapala = soil, in Hawaiian

owe lege = to owe feudal allegiance to the laird (lord)

WOW!  How many of these could you spell when you were 14-years-old?  I couldn't even spell any of them then or now.

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