![]() “What I am asserting is that Brigid Brophy’s fey mannerisms betray her message and her message sinks her showy technique what should be all restless chatoyancy becomes a fixed light blinking code.” - July, 16, 1978īebung: a tremolo effect similar to a violin vibrato and produced on a clavichord by sustaining a varying pressure on the key. ![]() “Despite the problems caused by dragons, winter monsters and irresponsible feuding lords, the people of Westeros rebuilt one bourgade after another without much of a plan for defense.”Ĭhatoyance: the state of being chatoyant (having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light). 18, 1860īourgade: a village of scattered dwellings, an unfortified town. “Under the agonies of the ague, the typhus, or the gout - through the wearisome days and nights of consumption - under the knife or the escharotic, under all assaults of the Imperial Destroyer - we confidingly look to him for recovery or relief.” - Oct. 9, 2016Įscharotic: producing an eschar (a scab formed especially after a burn). ![]() “In ‘David Copperfield,’ the poor, prolix and tragicomically positive Wilkins Micawber is uplifted by a humble gin punch.” - Dec. Micawber: someone who is poor but optimistic. “The credit card commercials always ended with a sort of punchline where they would list prices and then say something at the end was impayable.” Jackson danced the sirtaki at a Greek‐American gathering in Newton, Mass., after addressing the crowd.” - Jan. Sirtaki: a Greek circle dance similar to a hora. “If you’re heading down near the reefs you might catch wirrah, but folks call it ‘old boot’ because it tastes about that.” “Most geologists have long thought the tektites were terrestrial material thrown into the sky when a comet or asteroid struck earth and streamlined by their flight through the atmosphere while still molten.” - Nov. Tektite: a glassy body of probably meteoritic origin and of rounded but indefinite shape. (Example sentences that do not end with a publication date are inventions.) Here’s a sampling of the words that have given some of those spellers trouble, with definitions courtesy Merriam-Webster and sentences from the New York Times archive, where possible. More than 200 competitors this year have been eliminated from the 2022 spelling bee.
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