TWTS: Bereft or just lacking?

When we get schooled at something, we may feel humbled by the experience; but when we win something, we may also say we feel humbled by the experience.

When terror rains down, we suddenly have a spelling question.

The Declaration of Independence could readily have been the Declaration of Independency.

We can be bereaved, we can be bereft, and sometimes we can be both bereaved and bereft.

There are a few different ways to be wonky, some of which are positive and some of which, not so much.

The way some people use "resonate" doesn't resonate with all of our listeners.

If we’re involved in a hurry-scurry retreat or a harum-scarum dash, perhaps things are also helter-skelter.

If you’re not up to snuff, you’re not up to scratch and maybe you don’t get a cigar.

This week’s question has not been a recurring one, by which we mean it has occurred once and not reoccurred.

If it seems unlikely that crotchety people are related, at least etymologically, to those who do crochet, stay tuned.