Word: capybara
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...Sloths are a common sight in parks and on hillside trails, and marmoset monkeys scamper along telephone lines and swing through the trees of several neighborhoods. Armadillos, hawks and skunks often invade homes, while firefighters are called to remove caimans from back gardens and swimming pools. A capybara has even startled bathers by appearing on Ipanema Beach...
...easy and intended for a general audience or too “weird” for him to know. “They asked what the largest rodent in the world was,” he said, admitting that he had not known that the correct answer is a capybara. Vaz said that his youth might have been one factor that made him appealing to the show’s producers, He competed in the first round in September 2005, winning three games but losing in the fourth. He called himself “near the borderline?...
...stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels of the documentary Spellbound (which Disney wants to make into a musical too), it's an utterly charming look at one of the screwier manifestations of the American Dream...