FRENCH WORD GARDEZ SPELLS FINI FOR AREA GIRL.Byline: Daily News A 14-year-old Pasadena Pasadena (păs'ədē`nə). 1 City (1990 pop. 131,591), Los Angeles co., S Calif., at the base of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1866. girl was knocked out of the Scripps SCRIPPS Cardiology A clinical trial–Scripps Coronary Radiation to Inhibit Proliferation Post Stenting National Spelling Bee spelling bee n. A contest in which competitors are eliminated as they fail to spell a given word correctly. Also called spelldown. Noun 1. on Thursday after she misspelled a French word, gardez, part of "gardez la dame," a phrase used as a warning when a queen is threatened in a chess game. Emma Manning had qualified for the fifth round of the bee, which started Wednesday after she passed a written test and accurately spelled shepherd, recondite and zwieback. But the fifth round proved rough for Emma and dozens of the nation's other top spellers, who were picked off one by one as they were given obscure words to contend with, such as rhodochrosite rhodochrosite Carbonate mineral composed of manganese carbonate (MnCO3), a source of manganese for the ferromanganese alloys used in steel production. It is commonly found in ore veins formed at moderate temperatures, in high-temperature metamorphic deposits, and and impuissance im·pu·is·sance n. Lack of power or effectiveness; weakness. [Middle English impuissaunce, from Old French impuissance : in-, not; see in-1 + . Still, Emma said she was happy with her experience. "It's been great," she said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C., where the 80th annual bee was held. "I've had so much fun all week. In the first few days I made a lot of friends." Emma qualified for the national bee by winning the Daily News Regional Spelling Bee in March. |
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