Can you use that in a sentence?

I heard that an 8th grader won the US National Spelling Bee today. He had to spell words like:

sphygmomanometer

tropholytic

drepaniform

sciosophy

cancrizans

The final winning word?

appoggiatura

I don't even know what any of those words mean, let alone spell them. I think the reason I don't watch the spelling bee on tv is because it makes me feel so darned stupid! lol