2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee
May 30 and 31, 2007

Summary of Round 3
(Click on the speller's name for a summary of words given.)
No. Speller Sponsor Correct
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1. Pyo, Grace The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama resiliency resiliency   
5. Horton, Jonathan Arizona Educational Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona exhilarate exhilarate   
7. Nawaz, Samia Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas toxiphobia toxophobia  E
8. Loon, Anjanet The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, The Bahamas marmoset marmoset   
11. O’Dorney, Evan Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, California compunctious compunctious   
12. Thomas, Tia Sierra Telephone/Mountain Home School, Oakhurst, California impercipient impercipient   
14. Manning, Emma Daily News Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California recondite recondite   
16. Young, Albert The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, California scopate scopate   
17. Rana, Maheen Record Searchlight, Redding, California papyrology papyrology   
18. Whitehead, Brandon The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California perstringe perstringe   
19. Kao, Josephine The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California empiricism empiricism   
20. Song, Justin The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, California cytochrome cytochrome   
21. Doner, John San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California beguile beguile   
22. O’Donnell, Sam Ventura County Star, Ventura, California gesticulate gesticulate   
25. Wang, Cody Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, Canada jocundity jocundity   
27. Park, Soohyun National Post, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada subreption subreption   
28. Gartke, Nate Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada nettlesome nettlesome   
29. Sampalli, Amrit The Daily News, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada penance penance   
30. Bogetti, Curtis The Daily News, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada refulgent refulgent   
34. Silins, Katherine Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada hydrogenation hydrogenation   
37. Dong, Anqi The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada avuncular avuncular   
39. Stanbridge, Chris The Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador diametrically diametrically   
41. Unger, Hailey The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada factotum factotum   
45. Gopalakrishnan, Maithreyi Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado tyrannical tyrannical   
46. Smith, Jake Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado prospectus prospectus   
47. Henares, Joseph New Haven Register, New Haven, Connecticut sieve sieve   
48. Gabriele, Matthew The Ridgefield Press, Ridgefield, Connecticut yeanling yeanling   
49. Lasché, Olivia The Washington Informer, Washington, District of Columbia bucolic bucolic   
56. Bressler, Liam Naples Daily News, Naples, Florida mythologem mythologem   
58. Gatmaytan, Miguel Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Florida numinous noumenous  E
59. Zhang, Claire The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida radome radome   
63. Murdock, Justin The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Florida sanctimonious sanctimonious   
64. Devonmille, Abigail Press Journal, Vero Beach, Florida portraiture portriture  E
68. Zhou, Andrew The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hawaii trellised trellised   
73. Sloan, Rose Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois advantageous advantageous   
75. Voss, Katelyn The Telegraph, Dixon, Illinois bioassay bioacae  E
77. Benjamin, Alex The Daily Journal, Kankakee, Illinois expostulation expostulation   
78. Ellis, Zina The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, Moline, Illinois mausoleum mausoleum   
79. Mou, Kyle Peoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois quasi quasi   
90. Mishra, Sameer Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana ribald ribald   
91. Yeh, Michael The Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana perennial perennial   
96. Bolt, Ariane South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana concrescence concrescence   
97. Aouad, Kennyi The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana Sardoodledom Sardoodledom   
101. Bish, Regina Jamaica Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica alnico alnico   
102. Shivashankar, Kavya The Olathe News, Olathe, Kansas tachymeter tachymeter   
103. Pastapur, Aishwarya The Topeka Capital-Journal, Topeka, Kansas marsupial marsupial   
106. Faul, Olivia The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana juxtapose juxtapose   
112. Roper, Selena Capital-Gazette Newspapers, Annapolis, Maryland requisite requisite   
114. Lotharp, Kevin The Aegis, Bel Air, Maryland palaver pulavor  E
115. desJardins-Park, Heather Howard County Library and The Baltimore Sun, Columbia, Maryland nowanights nowanights   
118. Shoemaker, Mandi The Enterprise, Lexington Park, Maryland emphysema emphysema   
119. Baker, Izaak The Recorder, Prince Frederick, Maryland theologaster theologaster   
122. Radakrishnan, Anjithaa The Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts beneficent beneficent   
125. Shekhar, Akshat The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Massachusetts storiation storiation   
129. Wassink, Lydia The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan isocracy isocracy   
135. Vijayakumar, Nithya The Oakland Press, Oakland, Michigan kinetic kinetic   
140. Cojocaru, Catherine Forum Communications Company, Fargo, North Dakota psychoanalysis psychoanalysis   
142. Liu, Jonathan Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota ufology ufology   
145. Hwang, Daniel Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, Missouri differentiate differentiate   
146. Spencer, Connor The Examiner, Independence, Missouri jugular jugular   
148. Rouse, Caroline St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri gurney gurney   
149. Yap, Chester Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, Missouri impediment impediment   
151. Harmsworth, Sarah Lee Newspapers of Montana, Billings, Montana cajolery cajolery   
152. Mirza, Sarah Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska preferable preferable   
153. Rajagopal, Shiva Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nevada wilco wilco   
154. Conway, Alexandra New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester, New Hampshire serge serge   
155. Hale, Robert Asbury Park Press/Home News Tribune, Asbury Park, New Jersey thrombocyte thrombocyte   
161. Evans, Matthew The Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque, New Mexico anticipatory anticipatory   
169. Kohli, Prateek Long Island Jewish World, Rockville Centre, New York convivial convivial   
173. Lindseth, Paul Daily News, New York, New York expurgate expurgate   
177. Johnson, Ethan Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York gangrenous gangrenous   
179. Sindhu, Siraj Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, New York sociologese sociologies  E
180. Weir, Kate The New Zealand Listener, Wellington, New Zealand infallible infallible   
182. Whaley, Gideon The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina aerobatics aerobatics   
183. Upshaw, Grace The Daily Record, Dunn, North Carolina historiette historiette   
184. Ojo, David The Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, North Carolina ricotta ricatta  E
185. Lay, Andrew The Gaston Gazette, Gaston, North Carolina pavid pavid   
186. Cheng, Yeeva The Shelby Star, Shelby, North Carolina minestrone ministrone  E
189. Wright, Josiah Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, North Carolina chattel chattel   
192. Haiduc, Manuela The Repository, Canton, Ohio sinuosity sinuosity   
193. Shoji, Marissa The Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, Ohio inertia inertia   
194. Remer, Scott The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio pertinacious pertinacious   
207. Girbino, Michael The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio amethyst amethyst   
210. Haiduk, Bruce Tulsa World, Tulsa, Oklahoma enculturation enculturation   
211. Nye, Katie The Bulletin, Bend, Oregon rusticate rusticate   
212. Clark, Shelley Portland Tribune, Portland, Oregon lenity lenity   
216. Dzaka, Kafui The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania noctilucous noctolucus  E
225. Walter, Micah Daily Local News, West Chester, Pennsylvania recede recede   
226. Bader, Lina Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania stymie stymie   
228. Nguyen, Rosa The Valley Breeze, Cumberland, Rhode Island wafture wafture   
235. Rehberger, Rebecca Rapid City Journal, Rapid City, South Dakota geostationary geostationary   
240. Mathis, Cherry The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee begonia begonia   
241. Cunningham, Alex The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee depilation depolation  E
245. Chyao, Amy The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas mollycoddle mollycoddle   
246. Gupta, Samir El Paso Times, El Paso, Texas paseo paseo   
247. Patel, Samir Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas trumpery trumpery   
249. Ajieren, Brian Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas satisfice satisfice   
250. Soriano, Raymond Laredo Morning Times, Laredo, Texas provincial provincial   
252. Jones, Calley Midland Reporter-Telegram, Midland, Texas claque claque   
258. Marcel, Julisa The Virgin Islands Daily News, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Egyptiac Egyptiac   
262. Weber, Lucy The Burlington Free Press, Burlington, Vermont insomnolence insomnolence   
263. Lindsey, Carolyn The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Virginia jettison jetison  E
267. Willett, Rebecca The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Virginia sluice sluice   
271. Gullapalli, Sachith The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia volplane valeplane  E
274. Venkat, Abhinav Potomac News, Woodbridge, Virginia trafficking trafficking   
277. Pu, Jason Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington rambla rombla  E
285. Jacobson, Isabel Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin antioxidant antioxidant