Wednesday's learn and earn...

~WORD OF THE DAY~

congeries • \KAHN-juh-reez\ • noun
: aggregation, collection

Example Sentence: As we walked past the food stalls our nostrils were assailed by a congeries of exotic, unfamiliar smells.

Did you know? What do "epitome," "circus," "tribunal," and "congeries" have in common? All are part of a relatively small collection of English nouns that made the transition from Latin to English unaltered in both spelling and meaning. "Congeries" joined this group in our language in the early 1600s. Latin "congeries" comes from the Latin verb "congerere," which means "to carry or bring together" and which is also the source of our word "congest." In English, "congeries" stands out because it is a singular word with a plural appearance -- and its plural is also spelled "congeries."

~THE REBATE~

Hillshire Farms has a promotion going on their lunch meats. Just purchase any participating Hillshire Farm Lunchmeat Tub and try it in your favorite sandwich. Then come back to enter your unique code and take the challenge. When you enter the code on their web site you will receive $5.00 of coupons instantly.

If you would rather get a gift card or do not have a way to print them, you can opt to receive a $5.00 grocery gift card instead via snail mail. Purchase any specially marked package of Hillshire Farm® Deli Select® Lunchmeat beginning June 16, 2010 through September 4, 2010.

To claim your grocery gift card you must submit:

1) The legibly completed original offer form that was obtained online at http://www.freshtastechallenge.com/

2) The original label from the package of Hillshire Farm® Deli Select® Lunchmeat (“Proof of Purchase”) that contains both the UPC code and the unique promotion code used to enter this offer.

3) The original cash register receipt with purchase price and date circled.

Submissions must be postmarked by October 4, 2010 and received by October 11, 2010. The $5.00 grocery gift card has an expiration date of December 31, 2010 and there is only one allowed per mailing address.

I hope you are all enjoying your week so far!

C.Q.