2025 Results

Round 8 - Vocabulary Round

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No. Speller's Name Speller's Sponsor Question Answer Given
4 Smriti Parajuli Arizona Educational Foundation A monger is:
a person engaged in the sale of a product
12 Rithvi Balajee San Ramon Valley Rotary Club What is a lacuna?
a play on words
Correct answer: a missing part
20 Oliver Halkett Los Angeles County Office of Education What is a juggernaut?
a massive, crushing force
21 Elyssa Chen Los Angeles County Office of Education Something described as littoral is:
related to the sea shore
26 Priya Sekera Terrell Christopher Gladney Memorial Academy If something is described as baroque, it:
has an elaborate design
30 Abheri Sureddi San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools When people tithe their income, they:
give a tenth of it to a religious institution
35 Arshan Shahriar ECU - A Division of WFCU Credit Union Something described as febrile:
is characterized by fever
36 Isaac Brogan WFCU Credit Union What is an acclivity?
an ascending slope of a hill
39 Sam Smith Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society Valhalla is a place of:
honor or glorification
42 Zwe Spacetime The Washington Informer Another word for blithesome is:
oppressive
Correct answer: cheery
43 Josephine Omandam European PTSA What does it mean to disenfranchise someone?
to deprive them of a right, such as voting
45 Tucker Ayers WJXT A person described as gauche is:
lacking in social graces
53 Moksh Maru SNSB Region Two Bee What is a diminuendo?
a gradual decrease in loudness
70 Ananya Joshi Boone-Winnebago Regional Office of Education What is a basilisk?
an oblong building ending in a semicircular altar
Correct answer: a mythological reptile with poisonous breath that can kill with a single glance
85 Kellian Peterson Kansas Press Association A fusillade is:
a number of shots fired simultaneously
96 Thanvi Gatamaneni Howard County Library What is celerity?
rapidity of motion or action
102 Adarsh Venkannagari The REAL Program What is effrontery?
arrogant boldness
136 Keona-Dannette Osae-Twum Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs What does it mean to convalesce?
to get well gradually after being sick
138 Akshara Jagannathan Sidelines and Stages If something is described as endogenous, it:
originates from within the body
144 Adhrit Chowdhury SUNY Fredonia Something described as meandrous is:
winding and rambling
147 Logan Yuan Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES What is another word for juvenescence?
youthfulness
155 Kushi Gottimukkala Carolina Panthers What is a tetralogy?
a series of four connected works
156 Phaneendra Bulusu Carolina Panthers What does it mean to ossify?
to become callous or hardened
162 Jacob Winfield Johnston County Public Schools What is a pyroclast?
a fragment of expelled volcanic material
163 Chilaka Ugobi ND Association of County Superintendents What does it mean to inveigle someone?
to sentence them to punishment
Correct answer: to manipulate them with ingenuity or flattery
166 Tommy Schervish The Repository The term vox populi is used to refer to:
common opinion
167 Meenakshi Vodela WCPO 9 What is timbre?
the quality of tone distinctive of a singing voice or an instrument
180 William Fuller 2 News Oklahoma A person described as magniloquent:
uses bombastic, high-flown language
182 Yohaan Damani Chester County Intermediate Unit If something is arborescent, it:
resembles a tree
192 Nicolás Jakymiw The Post and Courier A person described as a samaritan is:
compassionate and eager to help
200 Jupiter Morrow Tennessee Titans Someone described as latitudinarian:
does not insist on strict enforcement of standards or norms
202 Sariah Titus Kiwanis Club of Abilene A neologism refers to:
a new word or expression
205 Corbin Trevino KRIS Communications What is a scimitar?
a sword with a curved blade
207 Avishka Dudala Dallas Sports Commission Something described as sidereal relates to:
stars or constellations
210 Luke Sturlin Fort Worth Regional Bee What is recidivism?
repeated relapse into previous modes of behavior
220 Naithik Yankarla Ector County Independent School District A person described as egalitarian:
believes that all persons are equal
226 Jahmir Greaux The Virgin Islands Daily News Something described as frangible is capable of:
mutual substitution
Correct answer: being broken
234 Kitcha Shankar Rockingham District Ruritans Someone who has atherosclerosis:
has fatty deposits in their arteries
238 Laasya Mohan Fairfax County Council PTA What is a raconteur known for?
well-told stories
241 Ashvin Pinnamaraju Radford University What does thermophilic mean?
of, relating to, or being an organism growing at a high temperature