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2024 Results
Round 2 - Vocabulary Round
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No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
What is a glissando? |
a quick series of consecutive notes played on an instrument
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How would one best describe a transmontane area? |
lying on the farther side of a mountain range
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1 | Snigdha Pati | Alabama Kiwanis Foundation | What is analgesia? |
insensitivity to pain
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3 | Elden Wier | Fairbanks North Star Borough School District | A dolma is a type of: |
prehistoric monument
Correct answer: stuffed vegetable dish
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4 | Esha Marupudi | Arizona Educational Foundation | Detritus is: |
fragmentary material
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5 | Salman Rashid | Arizona Educational Foundation | A debutante refers to someone who is: |
making a formal entrance into society
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6 | Sumukh Tirumalasetty | Arizona Educational Foundation | An onus is: |
an umbilical cord
Correct answer: something difficult to bear
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7 | Christopher Werito | Navajo Times Publishing Company | Something described as recumbent is: |
in a horizontal position or lying down
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8 | Sara Chen | Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas | A remark described as opprobrious is: |
expressing distaste
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9 | Aarav Balani | The Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training | Tutelage is: |
individual instruction
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11 | Enzo Paylaga | KERO Channel 23 | What is a lingua franca? |
something that acts as a common language
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12 | Aren Lee | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | Ventriloquy is the act of speaking: |
without moving the lips
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13 | Aiden Meng | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | If a tree is deciduous, it: |
sheds its leaves
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14 | Rithvi Balajee | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | What is an inducement? |
a motive that leads to action
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15 | Madison Gray | Imperial County Office of Education | Hubris is: |
excessive pride or arrogance
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16 | Ike Sperling | Humboldt County Office of Education | A schooner is a type of: |
boat
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17 | Caroline Van Garsse | The Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools | Acerbity is: |
a manner that is harsh, biting, or irritated
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18 | Sydney Tran | The Orange County Register/O.C. Department of Education | In what class would you most likely learn about ataxia? |
physiology
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19 | Kamya Balaji | Los Angeles County Office of Education | What is a moratorium? |
a delay officially set by some authority
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20 | Oliver Halkett | Los Angeles County Office of Education | What is tommyrot? |
nonsense
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21 | Lawrence Ye | Merced County Office of Education | What is a diaspora? |
a mold microbe
Correct answer: a dispersion of people
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22 | Victoria Li | Riverside County Office of Education | If something is described as laconic, it is: |
spoken, written, or expressed briefly
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23 | Shruthi Srinivasan | Terrell Christopher Gladney Memorial Academy | Where would one expect to find a solon? |
in a legislative body
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24 | Ryan Sekera | Terrell Christopher Gladney Memorial Academy | What is a symposium? |
a conference at which people give speeches
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25 | Seren Kim | Monterey County Office of Education | Which of the following is another word for tenement? |
disposition
Correct answer: apartment
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26 | Hannah Kuo | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | Excision refers to: |
removal by surgery
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27 | Angeline Wang | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | What is triage? |
a cluster of shapes with three sides and three angles
Correct answer: administration of treatment based on urgency of need
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28 | Duaa Ouznali | ABC 10News | Someone described as implacable: |
cannot be calmed
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30 | Sarvadnya Kadam | Tulare County Office of Education | If something is described as parochial, it is: |
within the jurisdiction of a church parish
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31 | David Wang | Cape Breton University | Another word for viscidity is: |
stickiness
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32 | Arshan Shahriar | ECU - A Division of WFCU Credit Union | What is another word for temblor? |
earthquake
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34 | Blanche Li | Boulder Valley School District | If something is saltatory, it: |
relates to dancing
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35 | Ved Raju | The Denver Post | What is another word for antithesis? |
opposite
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36 | Nathan Settevendemie | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | What is another word for stalwart? |
ugly
Correct answer: brave
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37 | Siara Husain | First State Educate | If something is palpebral, it relates to: |
eyelids
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38 | Abigail Adegbite | The Washington Informer | Which of the following would be an example of larceny? |
stealing a painting
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39 | Zwe Spacetime | The Washington Informer | A locavore is: |
a person who eats foods grown nearby
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40 | Ibrahim Beck | European PTSA | What is a harbinger? |
something that foreshadows future events
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43 | Sree Vidya Siliveri | WJXT | A theomachy is a battle: |
among the gods
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45 | Nikhil Sha | Miami Herald | Someone described as effusive is: |
showing uncontrolled enthusiasm or emotion
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46 | Sophia Schoenrock | Collier County Public Schools | Preprandial refers to the period before: |
eating dinner
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47 | Aiden Westover | Foundation For Orange County Public Schools | Something that is pinnate resembles: |
a feather
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48 | Louis Avetis | Foundation For Orange County Public Schools | A terrarium is used to: |
grow plants
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49 | Diego Gallegos | Foundation For Orange County Public Schools | Zydeco is: |
a spicy lamb stew
Correct answer: a type of music from Louisiana
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50 | Moksh Maru | SNSB Region Two Bee | What is a pilcrow? |
a paragraph mark
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51 | Vlada Kozhevnikova | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund | What are reparations? |
compensation for damages sustained
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52 | Cecily Dean | Envision Credit Union | Something described as phosphorescent: |
emits light
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53 | Sarv Dharavane | Georgia Association of Educators | Another word for confabulation is: |
conversation
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54 | Sara Daoud | Georgia Association of Educators | What is a diacritic? |
a mark placed around a letter to modify its phonetic value
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55 | Giovanni Adjei | The National Spelling Bee Ghana | A sycophant is most likely to: |
flatter you
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56 | Cyleane Quansah | The National Spelling Bee Ghana | What does it mean to galvanize? |
to crush
Correct answer: to stimulate
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57 | Alleena Villaluz | Rotary Club of Guam | What does it mean to depose someone? |
remove from a high position
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58 | Kira Lau | Hawaii State Spelling Bee | A wallaby is a type of: |
kangaroo
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59 | Sonu Murali Mohan | SNSB Region One Bee | What does it mean to chide? |
scold mildly
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61 | Gabriel Aguirre | Idaho Character Foundation | Something described as dowdy is: |
old-fashioned
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62 | Navtaj Singh | Lewiston Tribune | Something described as osculatory relates to: |
kissing
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63 | Beatriz Whitford-RodrÃguez | Chicago Public Schools | What is a topiary? |
a shrub cut into a decorative shape
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64 | Shruthi Ayyagari | DuPage Regional Office of Education | Something described as vernal relates to the: |
autumn
Correct answer: spring
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65 | Katie Park | South Cook Intermediate Service Center | What does peculate mean? |
to steal for one’s own use
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70 | Yahya Mohammed | Kane County Regional Office of Education | What is another word for codswallop? |
nonsense
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72 | Tyler Kochanski | McHenry County Regional Office of Education | A person indulging in histrionics is: |
acting dramatically to produce a response from others
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73 | Arnav Sharma | Grundy/Kendall County Regional Office of Education | What is an armistice? |
an agreement to end hostilities or war
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74 | Parker Zimmerly | Regional Office of Education #47 | If something is described as ineffable, it is: |
not able to be expressed in words
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75 | Visharad Sathish | Lake County Regional Office of Education | Something described as tensile: |
relates to the act of stretching
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76 | Raian Timur | SNSB Region Three Bee | What is primogeniture? |
being the firstborn of the children of the same parents
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77 | Owen Shirey | IU School of Education Indianapolis | A bromide is: |
a microscopic marine organism
Correct answer: an overused saying or idea
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78 | Sharanya Kar | LARA Educational Opportunities, Inc. | Something described as subliminal: |
is designed to affect the mind on an unconscious level
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80 | Leo Furlong | Ball State University - WIPB-TV | Someone described as feckless: |
is lazy and impractical
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83 | Samuel Riley | Kansas Press Association | A shar-pei is a type of: |
Chinese dog
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84 | Josephine Frimpong | University of Kentucky - College of Education | One who exhibits temerity is: |
nervous
Correct answer: reckless
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86 | George Weghorst | WCPO 9 | Someone described as rebarbative: |
tends to repel or irritate
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88 | Naqeeb Hossain | LSU - University Laboratory School | Someone described as dyspeptic is: |
ill-tempered
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89 | Caroline Andrus | Kiwanis Club of Lafayette & Arcadiana | What does it mean to tabulate? |
set up data in rows and columns
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90 | James Granger | SagamoreHill Broadcasting of Lake Charles | Travails are: |
hard work
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91 | Leya Ismail | New Orleans Chapter of The Links | A poblano is: |
a kind of pepper
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92 | Chidu Anumele | Louisiana State University Shreveport | What is divestiture? |
a required transfer of assets
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93 | Esme Filippo | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram | Another word for lassitude is: |
fatigue
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95 | Bindi Ray | Maryland Sports | A penitentiary is: |
a state or federal prison
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96 | Lauren Merillana | The Meakem Group | What would you most likely do with stevia? |
use it in place of sugar
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99 | Aruuke Rayeva | Charles County Public Schools | What does a mortician do? |
manage funeral and burial preparations
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100 | Megan Barrientos | University of Maryland Eastern Shore | What is a golem? |
a humanlike figure endowed with life
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101 | Sapna Malhotra | Boston Centers for Youth & Families | What is an arpeggio? |
a production of the tones of a chord one after another
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102 | Adarsh Venkannagari | The Daily Item | Something described as circadian: |
occurs in 24-hour cycles
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104 | Ainsley Gastmeier | Macomb Intermediate School District | What is a nautilus? |
a mollusk with a spiral shell
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105 | Divya Choudhary | WXYZ Channel 7 | What is a trellis? |
a frame made of crossing pieces of wood
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110 | Ishika Dirisala | The Herald-Palladium | Something described as sardonic is: |
marked by mockery
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111 | Minna Danziger | Traverse City Record-Eagle | Weather described as inclement is: |
rough or stormy
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112 | Sanvi Mandvekar | Oakland Schools Education Foundation | What is a genome? |
a set of chromosomes and the genes they contain
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113 | Carter Peterson | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What is a spinosity? |
a prickly or difficult thing
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114 | Gemma Kim | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | A pontiff is: |
a chief religious figure
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115 | Jaden Go | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | Another word for statuesque is: |
majestic
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117 | Charles Mueller-Thompson | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | Where would you find a vestibule? |
between the outer door and the interior of a building
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118 | Wade Salvey | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What would you most likely do with a clavichord? |
play music with it
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119 | Emmaline Bushman | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What does a soothsayer do? |
predict the future
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121 | Josslyn Hansen | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | An annulment is: |
a pronouncement declaring the invalidity of a marriage
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123 | Yuva Peddireddy | C Spire Foundation | What does it mean to sashay? |
to walk around in such a way as to attract attention
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124 | Ananya Aggarwal | Columbia Missourian | If something evokes pathos, it evokes: |
pity or compassion
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125 | Beckett Griffin | Mid-Continent Public Library | If you jettison something, you: |
dye it a deep, rich black
Correct answer: drop it from an airplane in flight
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127 | Scott Tingle | Three Rivers College | What is rosin used for? |
making varnishes
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128 | Kunal Patel | A.C.E.S. | What does it mean to liaise? |
to establish communication to develop mutual understanding
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129 | Natalie Linthicum | Mosaic Life Care Foundation | Something described as oblique is: |
slanting in direction or position
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130 | Khusi Dahal | Saint Louis University | What does it mean to consecrate? |
make or declare sacred
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131 | Ruby Wang | Montana Television Network | An amalgam is: |
a mixture of elements
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132 | Rian Camty | Omaha Sports Commission | What is remuneration? |
compensation for a loss or expense
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134 | Audrey Ware | The Public Education Foundation | Rudiments are: |
fundamental skills taught or learned
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136 | Harini Murali | SNSB Region Three Bee | Another word for simpatico is: |
likable
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137 | Eli Neibart | Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs | A cassock is: |
a full-length close-fitting robe
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138 | Ishaan Gupta | Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs | A person described as corpulent has: |
a bulky body
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139 | Daniel Rotem | Care NJ | In music, fortissimo means: |
very loud
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140 | Keith Lee | The Albuquerque Journal | A scythe is: |
a tool used to cut grass or certain crops
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143 | Cora Massaro | Orange-Ulster BOCES | Obloquy is: |
condemnatory language
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144 | Brian Liu | SNSB Region Four Bee | Pulchritude is: |
physical beauty
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145 | Reed Laursen | Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES | What is a portico? |
a covered walkway typically at the entrance of a building
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146 | Izzy Canada | NYC Department of Education | A person described as mendacious is: |
prone to lying
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147 | Jay Nayak | NYC Department of Education | What is a zygote? |
a fertilized egg
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148 | Margot Fieni | The Daily Star | Tosh is: |
foolish talk or actions
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149 | Leah Rini | Champlain Valley Educational Services | What is another word for erstwhile? |
former
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150 | Olivia Lipiec | SNSB Region Four Bee | What is prosody? |
the systematic study of metrical structure in verse
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151 | Simran Sanders | The Post-Standard | syracuse.com | If something is done fatuously, it is done: |
in a silly, foolish, or absurd manner
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152 | Micah Sterling | Watertown Daily Times | What is titration? |
a determination of the reactive capacity of a solution
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153 | Amazing-Grace Salami | Spellingbee In Nigeria | When people expatiate, they: |
speak on a topic in great detail
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154 | Sach Akella | Carolina Panthers | Agave is a type of: |
plant
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155 | Holden Good | Carolina Panthers | What is repartee? |
a back-and-forth of clever replies
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156 | Aishwarya Kallakuri | Carolina Panthers | Someone described as antiquarian: |
buys and sells old books
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157 | Kushi Gottimukkala | Carolina Panthers | Something described as pecuniary: |
consists of money
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159 | Zachary Thurnher | Cumberland County Schools | Espousal is: |
an act of supporting a belief or cause
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161 | Swayzee Brown | Johnston County Public Schools | What is coriander? |
a pungent herb used in cooking
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162 | Chilaka Ugobi | ND Association of County Superintendents | What does it mean to besmirch something? |
to stain or tarnish it
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163 | Zach Yeager | Akron Beacon Journal | What is another word for mollify? |
soothe
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164 | Joseph Keffer | Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism | A menagerie is: |
a collection of wild animals
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166 | Rujva Patel | WCPO 9 | What are regalia? |
insignia that indicate an office or membership in a group
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167 | Avinav Prem Anand | Columbus Blue Jackets | What is a sylph? |
an imaginary being said to inhabit the air
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168 | Sebastian Gil | ESC of the Western Reserve | Something described as astringent: |
tightens cells or draws together soft tissues
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170 | Hiro Bernhardsson | Educational Service Center of Lorain County | Another term for the patella is: |
kneecap
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172 | Maureen Bone | East Liverpool Review, Salem News & The Morning Journal | Another word for inerrancy is: |
infallibility
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176 | Kendall Mehl | The Blade | Profligacy refers to: |
reckless extravagance and wastefulness
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177 | Daniela Lucia Pappalardo | WFMJ Television | A rapscallion is: |
a rascal or scoundrel
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178 | Annika Huang | Oklahoma City Community College | Someone described as venerable is: |
deserving of respect
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179 | William Fuller | 2 News Oklahoma | Something described as staid is: |
serious or grave
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180 | Vittal Krishnamurthy | SagamoreHill Broadcasting of Portland | A zeppelin is a type of: |
airship
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181 | Disha Jain | Chester County Intermediate Unit | What is an entente? |
an international agreement that is less binding than an alliance
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182 | Akshaj Somisetty | Pennon Education | To acquiesce is to: |
accept without protest
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183 | Maia Mathai | Pennsylvania State Education Association and Council for the Advancement of Public Schools | Another word for plangency is: |
expressiveness
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184 | Joey Anandh | Delaware County Intermediate Unit | Burgoo is a type of: |
stew
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185 | Isaac Geremew | WHYY | What is a requisition? |
a demand made in writing for something that is not automatically provided
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186 | Jayden Jiang | WHYY | Something described as beatific is: |
marked by complete bliss
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187 | Jane Ross | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | What does it mean to grouse? |
to complain
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188 | Rowena Cresswell-Blickley | Schuylkill Technology Center | Someone described as unctuous is: |
smug and falsely earnest
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189 | Anjali Agarwal | Diamond City Sports | Froufrou is: |
excessive decoration in clothing
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191 | Elliana Pagliarini | The Valley Breeze | What does it mean to metastasize? |
to spread from an original site of disease to another part of the body
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192 | John Donato | The Post and Courier | What is a harangue? |
a rant
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193 | Connor Norton | Pee Dee Education Center | Something described as exogenous: |
originates from or is due to external causes
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194 | Ahaan Jain | Carolina Panthers | What does an impresario do? |
manages or conducts an opera or concert
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195 | Miles Little | USC Upstate | Which of the following is another word for inimical? |
hostile
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196 | Kolin Schuler | Carolina Panthers | If something is described as impromptu, it is done: |
without previous preparation
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197 | Amanuel Gemechis | South Dakota News Watch | What does it mean to dissemble? |
hide facts or feelings
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199 | Swetank Bangaru | Tennessee Titans | If something is described as recriminatory, it: |
has the character of a counter accusation
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200 | Vidula Kalathur | Tennessee Titans | A chinook is a type of: |
warm dry wind
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202 | Arnie Parat | Education Credit Union | Something described as retrograde is: |
moving backwards
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204 | Tarini Nandakumar | Rain Droplets Foundation | The provenance of something is its: |
place of origin
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205 | Isaac Cancio | KRIS Communications | What is a halibut? |
a type of flatfish
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206 | Avishka Dudala | Dallas Sports Commission | A periwinkle is a type of: |
ornamental plant
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207 | Faizan Zaki | Dallas Sports Commission | A splenetic person can be described as: |
bad-tempered
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208 | Shreyansh Zadoo | Dallas Sports Commission | Someone who is ensconced is: |
firmly or comfortably settled
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209 | Anaya Tonde | EPISD Education Foundation | A chimera is created from: |
parts of various real or imaginary animals
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210 | Brihasa Veduru | Fort Worth Public Library/Fort Worth Sports Commission | Something described as spurious is: |
outwardly comparable to something without having its genuine qualities
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211 | Noah White | Houston Community College | A parabola is a type of: |
curve
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212 | Luke Nguyen | Houston Community College | Which of the following is an example of a tributary? |
a river feeding into a larger river
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213 | Zachary Teoh | Houston Community College | Where would you find phalanges? |
in the hand or foot
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214 | Alejandro Martinez | Laredo Morning Times | What is a patronymic? |
a name derived from one's father or his ancestor
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215 | Michael Tesfaye | Ramar Communications | Suet is a type of: |
ancient grain
Correct answer: hard fat
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216 | Caleb Giuoco | Rio Grande Valley Newspapers - AIM Media Texas | Something described as crepuscular: |
is active in the evening
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217 | Shreeya Sivakumar | Midland Reporter-Telegram | Something described as quintessential is: |
the purest of its kind
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218 | Krish Patel | Ector County Independent School District | To purvey is to: |
examine something closely in order to understand the details
Correct answer: make available something that's wanted or needed
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220 | Siyona Kandala | BASIS Ed Texas and BASIS Texas Charter Schools, Inc. | Polysemy refers to: |
the state of having extra chromosomes
Correct answer: the quality of having multiple meanings
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221 | Chev Bondoc | Victoria College | Something described as farcical: |
is so silly as to provoke laughter
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226 | Roshan Kaushik | The City Journals | What is tiffin? |
a midday meal
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227 | Phoenix Newell | Vermont Principals Association | Another word for evanescent is: |
short-lived
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229 | Draven Williams | Central Rappahannock Regional Library | Someone described as repentant is experiencing: |
regret for past actions
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230 | Nicholas Kokhan | Rockingham District Ruritans | What is a hydrangea? |
a shrub or woody vine with large flower clusters
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231 | Viky Tanamala | Loudoun County Public Schools | What does it mean to stipulate? |
state as a term in an agreement
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232 | Vincent Chu | InsideNoVa/Prince William | What is another word for umbrage? |
displeasure
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233 | Nikita Ramakrishnan | Fairfax County Council PTA | Something described as deleterious is: |
damaging
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234 | Nargiza Muzhapaer | Fairfax County Council PTA | Vagabonds are: |
people who wander about from place to place
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235 | Suhani Joshi | WHRO Public Media | Ritziness is the quality of being: |
luxurious or elegant
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236 | Rory Grant | Radford University | Something described as portentous is: |
foreshadowing a coming event
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237 | Harper Cox | Richmond Raceway | A pagoda is most like: |
a tower
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238 | Declan Mallady | Town Hall Seattle | Someone described as perspicacious is: |
keen, shrewd, or clever
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240 | Nirav Nimbarte | The Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram | An osprey is a type of: |
hawk
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242 | Jacob Martonito | Wisconsin State Journal | A person described as avuncular is: |
acting kindly like an uncle
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243 | Eli Jernigan | Sweetwater County BOCES | If you study sabermetrics, you know a lot about: |
baseball
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