Here are the words from the 2021 National Spelling Bee. All of them are hard.

Competitive spelling is one of those magical skills I'm happy to watch others completely obliterate.

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, becoming the first African American to win it since the first competition in 1925. She beat 209 talented young spellers, including 12-year-old...