Read the following passage, an excerpt from an email newsletter During the congressional recess, Representative Smythe will appear at a local community center. It is our intention to greet him with a warm welcome and invite him to the spelling bee we will be holding outside the center. We encourage him to participate and will offer him words we know he can spell, like cruelty and ignorance.

What information would be necessary for a reader to understand that the passage is meant as satire?