Last year, the Bee added vocabulary to its computerized exam.
This year, the spellers are bringing it on stage.
Lucas Urbanski (Speller 60) had the word "epixylous" -- growing on wood.
But it's the word of the speller two before him -- "cachinnate," which means laugh usually loudly or convulsively -- that became a vocab lesson.
"Can you make me cachinnate with this sentence?" Lucas asked.
"Maybe a little," Dr. Bailly responded. He read:
The tree monster was incredibly insecure about his epixylous fungi.
Lucas chuckled. He spelled the word correctly.
