Word: propylaeum
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Then Terry spelled propylaeum as "pro-pileum." Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...
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