Una VanWynsberghe, speller 166, made a noise that can only be described as a type of squeal when she heard her word, aposiopesis.
Una, an Ohio eighth grader, stood with her hands on her hips as she tried to figure out the word. It's her third Bee -- she tied for 172nd place in 2016 and 41st place last year.
But this word did her in. It means the leaving of a thought explicitly incomplete in writing or speaking often by a sudden breaking off and shifting of grammatical construction for rhetorical purposes.
Una is out.
