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Karrissa Zanett, speller 256, is out on "flechette," a small dart-shaped projectile clustered in an explosive warhead, dropped from an airplane or fired from a handheld gun.

She's a Montana eighth grader.

Laura Breed, speller 257 and a Minnesota eighth grader, misspelled "gunas," the three primal qualities or elements of matter according to Hindu philosophy.

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