The winning word was "elysium"!
Last night was the second annual community spelling bee. It got down to two teams in multiple overtime -- the Spellbinders of the Zion-Benton Public Library and the team from National City Bank ("we both make loans--theirs are low interest, ours are high interest").
Here's the story:
Nann who now knows that exegesis has an opposite, which is eisigesis