Nervous, yes

How was Sadie Storm, Speller 212, as she approached the microphone?

"I'm nervous, but I'm fine," she said.

"Let's get down to business," Dr. Bailly countered.

The Maryland eighth grader's word was "electromagnetic," of, relating to or produced by a fundamental physical force that is responsible for interactions between charged particles which occur because of their charge and for the emission and absorption of photons.

She got it right.

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