laodicean

laodicean [ley-od-uh-see-uhn]

–adjective
1. lukewarm or indifferent, esp. in religion, as were the early Christians of Laodicea.

–noun
2. a person who is lukewarm or indifferent, esp. in religion.

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Not from the Word of the Day feed in the right hand column, but this was the winning word in yesterday's finals of the National Spelling Bee.

I was one of my school's two entries in a spelling contest back when I was in the sixth grade. I won with "acne" when no one else could spell it.

I knew the word because I already had it.

My partner and I went on to the district contest where "we" were soundly trounced. I say "we" because she and I were a team and our cumulative score was what was measured against the other schools. She missed one; because I didn't study much, I missed something like six or seven and thanks to me we didn't place in the top three to advance to the next level. She said it was "OK" when I apologized to her, but I could tell it wasn't. Wonder if she's still mad at me?