Periods 4, 6, and 8 Word of the Week: botched

Periods 4, 6, and 8 voted for botched to be our word of the week.  The word botch, of which botched is the past tense, has several meanings:

1. to do or say in a bungling manner
2. to spoil by poor work
3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner

Here are some of the sentences we created to demonstrate our understanding of botched:

1. Billy Cundiff botched the field goal to eliminate the Ravens from the playoffs.
2. Kriss distracted Lexi from her art project with all his compliments, so she botched it.
3. I botched the test; I got a 0.