You just have to spell it

Ben Lenger, speller 165, got caught up when he tried to say his word - feudalism - after he spelled it.

But that's OK. He got all the letters out without making a mistake. He's still in the competition.

Feudalism is any social system in which great landowners or hereditary overlords exact revenue from the land and also exercise the functions of government in their domains.

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