Could You Repeat The Word?
“Laodicean” was the word that won Kavya Shivashankar the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee yesterday. It means lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics and is most likely not popping up in your crossword puzzle any time soon. So what lies in store for young Kavya? We have last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Sameer Mishra, who just finished the 9th grade at West Lafayette High School, and he joins The Takeaway with some words of wisdom for the newly-crowned champion.
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