"I know it!" Jacob Williamson (Speller 38) exclaimed.
But he spelled "kabaragoya" with a C instead of a K. The word means a large aquatic lizard of southeastern Asia, the Malay archipelago, and the Philippines that sometimes reaches a length of seven feet.
Jacob, an eighth grader in Cape Coral, Florida, is out.
"I thought I knew that word, but I guess I didn't," he said. "It was a lot of fun, I got a lot of fun out of it. I'm going to go home and remember this always."
