| 1st
Place Prize: Dinner with T.C.
Boyle at Jay's Bistro |
| 2nd
Place Prize: Bas Bleu tickets (2
per team member) |
| 3rd
Place Prize: $20 gift card to
Downtown Fort Collins (1 card per team
member) |
| |
WEEKLY
SPELLING
BEE WORDS: |
|
Paranoic
- "He was being paranoic, that was all. |
|
Turtle-meat
He
was an old white man with a
sunken chest and turtle-meat arms. |
|
Pouf
- "The girl was dark-eyed with a wild pouf of
sprayed-up hair. |
|
Sacheverell
And now poor Osbert or
Sacheverell was nothing more than
breakfast. |
|
Longhair
A person with long hair, a hippie |
|
Duckless
When he came back to her, he was still
duckless. From "Drop City" by T.C. Boyle |
|
Halo
- His hair was standing out from his
head like a collapsed halo.
(from "The Women" by T.C.
Boyle) |
crapulous
\KRAP-yuh-lus\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by gross
excess in drinking or eating.
2. Suffering from or due to such excess.
These were the dregs of their
celebratory party: the half-filled
glasses, the
cold beans and herring, the shouts and
smells of the crapulous strangers
hemming
them in on every side, the dead
rinsed-out April night and the rain
drooling
down the windows.
-- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock |
