Word: laodiceans
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...Laodicean adj.--The word spelled by 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling...
...repeatedly saying "he's one of us" as the narrator says of the rejected Lord Jim, Dysart keeps asking himself, "why should I make this boy one of us, why not leave him in his own world?" For Dysart is the victim of a low sperm count, a Laodicean marriage, and "professional menopause" and he almost wants to preserve Strang's passion in a world he sees as otherwise dull and godless...
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