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2024 Results
Round 5 - Vocabulary Round
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No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
4 | Esha Marupudi | Arizona Educational Foundation | If something is heterodox, it: |
diverges from a traditional point of view
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8 | Sara Chen | Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas | Something described as tandem: |
has no logical order or arrangement
Correct answer: consists of two elements arranged one behind the other
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13 | Aiden Meng | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | What is a sobriquet? |
a fanciful nickname
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18 | Sydney Tran | The Orange County Register/O.C. Department of Education | Someone described as swaggering has: |
a pompous or arrogant manner
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19 | Kamya Balaji | Los Angeles County Office of Education | A person described as woozy is: |
experiencing dizziness, mild nausea, or weakness
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20 | Oliver Halkett | Los Angeles County Office of Education | What does it mean to wrangle? |
engage in argument
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22 | Victoria Li | Riverside County Office of Education | What is an acronym? |
a word formed from the initial letters of other words
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24 | Ryan Sekera | Terrell Christopher Gladney Memorial Academy | Something described as sectarian is: |
confined to the limits of one group
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31 | David Wang | Cape Breton University | Someone exhibiting bellicosity is: |
showily aggressive
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32 | Arshan Shahriar | ECU - A Division of WFCU Credit Union | What does ameliorate mean? |
to make something better
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37 | Siara Husain | First State Educate | What is a calliope? |
a musical instrument consisting of a series of whistles
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45 | Nikhil Sha | Miami Herald | Xenophobia is the fear of: |
strangers or foreigners
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47 | Aiden Westover | Foundation For Orange County Public Schools | What is a troglodyte? |
a primitive cave dweller
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51 | Vlada Kozhevnikova | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund | What is an ideogram? |
a symbol that represents a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it
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54 | Sara Daoud | Georgia Association of Educators | What does it mean to be rife with something? |
to be abounding with it
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55 | Giovanni Adjei | The National Spelling Bee Ghana | If something is lackluster, it is: |
dull and uninspired
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72 | Tyler Kochanski | McHenry County Regional Office of Education | Someone described as strapping has: |
an unkempt or disheveled appearance
Correct answer: a vigorously sturdy physique
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80 | Leo Furlong | Ball State University - WIPB-TV | What is a spore? |
a tiny body used by a living thing to reproduce itself
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86 | George Weghorst | WCPO 9 | What is an ohm? |
a unit of electric resistance
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93 | Esme Filippo | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram | Something done tacitly is done in a manner that is: |
implied but not actually expressed
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96 | Lauren Merillana | The Meakem Group | What does it mean to spurn something? |
reject it with contempt
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105 | Divya Choudhary | WXYZ Channel 7 | To wean someone is to: |
tease them until they get annoyed or angry
Correct answer: have them cease to depend on a mother for nourishment
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111 | Minna Danziger | Traverse City Record-Eagle | If a person has been vindicated, they have been: |
freed from error or guilt
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118 | Wade Salvey | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | Something described as trite is: |
commonplace
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124 | Ananya Aggarwal | Columbia Missourian | Something described as scathing is: |
bitterly severe
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127 | Scott Tingle | Three Rivers College | An actor's repertoire is: |
the costume that they wear in a performance
Correct answer: the parts that they are prepared to perform
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129 | Natalie Linthicum | Mosaic Life Care Foundation | If something is described as verdant, it is: |
green with vegetation
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131 | Ruby Wang | Montana Television Network | What is contraband? |
goods forbidden from being imported or exported
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134 | Audrey Ware | The Public Education Foundation | What are tresses? |
rolling hills
Correct answer: long locks of hair
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139 | Daniel Rotem | Care NJ | What is a wayfarer? |
one who travels, especially on foot
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145 | Reed Laursen | Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES | What is a keystone? |
the wedge-shaped piece at the crown of an arch
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151 | Simran Sanders | The Post-Standard | syracuse.com | Which would you most likely quaff? |
a bottle of water
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153 | Amazing-Grace Salami | Spellingbee In Nigeria | How would you describe an oracular tone? |
wise and solemn
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154 | Sach Akella | Carolina Panthers | What is an iconoclast? |
one who attacks established beliefs, ideals, customs, or institutions
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155 | Holden Good | Carolina Panthers | A person described as recalcitrant is: |
stubbornly disobedient
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168 | Sebastian Gil | ESC of the Western Reserve | Something that is dolorous: |
expresses sorrow or affliction
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172 | Maureen Bone | East Liverpool Review, Salem News & The Morning Journal | What is conscription? |
the printing of an alternate currency
Correct answer: compulsory enrollment into the armed forces
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177 | Daniela Lucia Pappalardo | WFMJ Television | What is a clunker? |
a loud and crowded party
Correct answer: a dilapidated automobile
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179 | William Fuller | 2 News Oklahoma | What is a diatribe? |
a tube made of plastic for moving compressed gases
Correct answer: a bitter, abusive, lengthy speech or piece of writing
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182 | Akshaj Somisetty | Pennon Education | Someone described as agog is: |
full of intense interest or excitement
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188 | Rowena Cresswell-Blickley | Schuylkill Technology Center | What is a hippodrome? |
an arena for equestrian performances
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196 | Kolin Schuler | Carolina Panthers | Something described as abiotic is: |
not produced by living organisms
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197 | Amanuel Gemechis | South Dakota News Watch | What is a parapet? |
a raised rampart in a fortification
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200 | Vidula Kalathur | Tennessee Titans | What is a reprobate? |
a sum of money discounted from a purchase
Correct answer: a depraved or unprincipled person
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204 | Tarini Nandakumar | Rain Droplets Foundation | What is a tête-à-tête? |
a private conversation between two persons
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205 | Isaac Cancio | KRIS Communications | What does it mean to interdict? |
to introduce
Correct answer: to prohibit
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207 | Faizan Zaki | Dallas Sports Commission | Braggadocio is: |
empty boasting
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208 | Shreyansh Zadoo | Dallas Sports Commission | Zaniness is the state of being: |
fantastically absurd
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209 | Anaya Tonde | EPISD Education Foundation | If two things dovetail, they: |
proceed along parallel paths
Correct answer: fit together in a unified whole
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210 | Brihasa Veduru | Fort Worth Public Library/Fort Worth Sports Commission | Something described as holistic is concerned with: |
knowledge gathered through revelation
Correct answer: complete systems rather than only parts
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211 | Noah White | Houston Community College | Something described as swanky is: |
crooked or lopsided
Correct answer: fashionably elegant
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212 | Luke Nguyen | Houston Community College | Someone described as zestful is distinguished by: |
their vitality and keen enjoyment
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213 | Zachary Teoh | Houston Community College | What is didacticism? |
a quality of conveying instruction
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229 | Draven Williams | Central Rappahannock Regional Library | What is a klaxon? |
an English goose known for its shrill cry
Correct answer: an electrically operated horn or warning signal
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230 | Nicholas Kokhan | Rockingham District Ruritans | What is ecru? |
a color
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236 | Rory Grant | Radford University | Otolaryngology is the study of: |
the ear, nose, and throat
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237 | Harper Cox | Richmond Raceway | What does it mean to conflate things? |
to merge them together
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240 | Nirav Nimbarte | The Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram | Someone described as dilettantish: |
shows frivolous or superficial interest
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243 | Eli Jernigan | Sweetwater County BOCES | What is a greenhorn? |
an inexperienced person
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