2024 Results
Round 2 - Vocabulary Round
176
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Spellers eliminated in this round finished in 177th place (tied).
| No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
| 1 | Ayden Nguyen | Alabama Kiwanis Foundation | What is analgesia? |
insensitivity to pain
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| 3 | Elden Wier | Fairbanks North Star Borough School District | A dolma is a type of: |
prehistoric monument
Correct answer: stuffed vegetable dish
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| 4 | Aliyah Alpert | Arizona Educational Foundation | Detritus is: |
fragmentary material
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| 5 | Isabelle Garcia | Arizona Educational Foundation | A debutante refers to someone who is: |
making a formal entrance into society
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| 6 | Shynelle Joe | Navajo Times Publishing Company | An onus is: |
an umbilical cord
Correct answer: something difficult to bear
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| 7 | Ryan Fan | Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas | Something described as recumbent is: |
in a horizontal position or lying down
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| 8 | Aarav Balani | The Ministry of Education | A remark described as opprobrious is: |
expressing distaste
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| 9 | Eckward Ferguson | The Ministry of Education | Tutelage is: |
individual instruction
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| 11 | Amaani Charan | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | What is a lingua franca? |
something that acts as a common language
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| 12 | Aren Lee | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | Ventriloquy is the act of speaking: |
without moving the lips
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| 13 | Shradha Rachamreddy | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | If a tree is deciduous, it: |
sheds its leaves
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| 14 | Carina Beltran | Imperial County Office of Education | What is an inducement? |
a motive that leads to action
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| 15 | Aarav Mann | The Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools | Hubris is: |
excessive pride or arrogance
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| 16 | Katelyn Nguyen | The Orange County Register | A schooner is a type of: |
boat
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| 17 | Oliver Halkett | Los Angeles County Office of Education | Acerbity is: |
a manner that is harsh, biting, or irritated
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| 18 | Rishabh Saha | SNSB Region One Bee | In what class would you most likely learn about ataxia? |
physiology
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| 19 | Avi Randhawa | Riverside County Office of Education | What is a moratorium? |
a delay officially set by some authority
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| 20 | Nithika Rangan | TCG Memorial Academy | What is tommyrot? |
nonsense
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| 21 | Ryan Ferguson | Monterey County Office of Education | What is a diaspora? |
a mold microbe
Correct answer: a dispersion of people
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| 22 | Shrey Parikh | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | If something is described as laconic, it is: |
spoken, written, or expressed briefly
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| 23 | Srikanth Satheesh Kumar | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | Where would one expect to find a solon? |
in a legislative body
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| 24 | Ben Evans | ABC 10News | What is a symposium? |
a conference at which people give speeches
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| 25 | Ibrahim Zaki | Sage | Which of the following is another word for tenement? |
disposition
Correct answer: apartment
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| 26 | Sarvadnya Kadam | Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register | Excision refers to: |
removal by surgery
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| 27 | Duncan Grant | Cape Breton University | What is triage? |
a cluster of shapes with three sides and three angles
Correct answer: administration of treatment based on urgency of need
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| 28 | Arshan Shahriar | ECU Regional Bee | Someone described as implacable: |
cannot be calmed
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| 30 | Cooper Edwards | Boulder Valley School District | If something is described as parochial, it is: |
within the jurisdiction of a church parish
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| 31 | Aditi Muthukumar | The Denver Post | Another word for viscidity is: |
stickiness
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| 32 | Hayden Hughes | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | What is another word for temblor? |
earthquake
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| 34 | Noah Rowe | The Washington Informer | If something is saltatory, it: |
relates to dancing
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| 35 | Victoria McFetridge | The Washington Informer | What is another word for antithesis? |
opposite
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| 36 | Benjamin Grice | European PTSA | What is another word for stalwart? |
ugly
Correct answer: brave
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| 37 | Claire Smith | SNSB Region Two Bee | If something is palpebral, it relates to: |
eyelids
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| 38 | Nicasio David | Lee County Spelling Bee | Which of the following would be an example of larceny? |
stealing a painting
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| 39 | Sree Vidya Siliveri | WJXT | A locavore is: |
a person who eats foods grown nearby
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| 40 | Camila Sanchez Izquierdo | Miami Herald | What is a harbinger? |
something that foreshadows future events
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| 43 | Elvis Avetis | Orange County Public Schools | A theomachy is a battle: |
among the gods
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| 45 | Vel Sethirayar | Orange County Public Schools | Someone described as effusive is: |
showing uncontrolled enthusiasm or emotion
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| 46 | Amara Chepuri | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund | Preprandial refers to the period before: |
eating dinner
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| 47 | Bruhat Soma | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund | Something that is pinnate resembles: |
a feather
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| 48 | Jordin Oremosu | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund | A terrarium is used to: |
grow plants
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| 49 | Allie Winsor | Envision Credit Union | Zydeco is: |
a spicy lamb stew
Correct answer: a type of music from Louisiana
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| 50 | Matthew Baber | Georgia Association of Educators | What is a pilcrow? |
a paragraph mark
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| 51 | Sarv Dharavane | Georgia Association of Educators | What are reparations? |
compensation for damages sustained
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| 52 | Abena Kwaffo | Young Educators Foundation | Something described as phosphorescent: |
emits light
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| 53 | Giovanni Adjei | Young Educators Foundation | Another word for confabulation is: |
conversation
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| 54 | N'Adom Darko-Asare | Young Educators Foundation | What is a diacritic? |
a mark placed around a letter to modify its phonetic value
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| 55 | Alleena Villaluz | Rotary Club of Guam | A sycophant is most likely to: |
flatter you
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| 56 | Sebastian Bejar | Hawaii State Spelling Bee | What does it mean to galvanize? |
to crush
Correct answer: to stimulate
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| 57 | Amiah Van Hill | Idaho Character Foundation | What does it mean to depose someone? |
remove from a high position
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| 58 | Navtaj Singh | Lewiston Tribune | A wallaby is a type of: |
kangaroo
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| 59 | Nidhi Kulkarni | Chicago Public Schools | What does it mean to chide? |
scold mildly
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| 61 | Dev Katira | South Cook ISC | Something described as dowdy is: |
old-fashioned
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| 62 | Ribhu Chaher | Will County Regional Office of Education | Something described as osculatory relates to: |
kissing
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| 63 | Andres Robles | DeKalb Regional Office of Education 16 | What is a topiary? |
a shrub cut into a decorative shape
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| 64 | Hendrix Feld | Carroll/JoDaviess/Stephenson Regional Office of Education | Something described as vernal relates to the: |
autumn
Correct answer: spring
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| 65 | Yahya Mohammed | Kane County Regional Office of Education | What does peculate mean? |
to steal for one’s own use
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| 70 | Ian Leong | Lake County Regional Office of Education | What is another word for codswallop? |
nonsense
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| 72 | Reid Shaw | SNSB Region Three Bee | A person indulging in histrionics is: |
acting dramatically to produce a response from others
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| 73 | Achyut Ethiraj | SNSB Region Three Bee | What is an armistice? |
an agreement to end hostilities or war
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| 74 | Miah Miller | IU School of Education at IUPUI | If something is described as ineffable, it is: |
not able to be expressed in words
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| 75 | Sharanya Kar | Lafayette Adult Resource Academy | Something described as tensile: |
relates to the act of stretching
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| 76 | Leo Furlong | Ball State University - WIPB-TV | What is primogeniture? |
being the firstborn of the children of the same parents
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| 77 | Nolan Roule | Kankakee Valley REMC | A bromide is: |
a microscopic marine organism
Correct answer: an overused saying or idea
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| 78 | Partha Katreddy | The Dispatch Argus | Something described as subliminal: |
is designed to affect the mind on an unconscious level
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| 80 | Carey Chesire | Kansas Press Association | Someone described as feckless: |
is lazy and impractical
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| 83 | Ian Gibson | Visit Hopkinsville | A shar-pei is a type of: |
Chinese dog
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| 84 | Joshua Bullen | Visit Hopkinsville | One who exhibits temerity is: |
nervous
Correct answer: reckless
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| 86 | Zachary Rara | Louisville Free Public Library | Someone described as rebarbative: |
tends to repel or irritate
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| 88 | Aiden Pham | Kiwanis Club of Lafayette & Arcadiana | Someone described as dyspeptic is: |
ill-tempered
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| 89 | Paranika Ethakota | SagamoreHill Broadcasting, LLC | What does it mean to tabulate? |
set up data in rows and columns
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| 90 | Nayara de Silva-Ahmed | New Orleans Chapter of The Links | Travails are: |
hard work
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| 91 | Sanil Thorat | Louisiana State University Shreveport | A poblano is: |
a kind of pepper
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| 92 | Evan Trieu | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram | What is divestiture? |
a required transfer of assets
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| 93 | Quint Karlsson | Anne Arundel County Public Schools | Another word for lassitude is: |
fatigue
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| 95 | Su Hlaing | The Meakem Group | A penitentiary is: |
a state or federal prison
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| 96 | Navya Dwivedi | Howard County Library | What would you most likely do with stevia? |
use it in place of sugar
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| 99 | Conor Keightley-Reinhardt | University of Maryland Eastern Shore | What does a mortician do? |
manage funeral and burial preparations
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| 100 | Tanoshi Inomata | Boston Centers for Youth & Families | What is a golem? |
a humanlike figure endowed with life
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| 101 | Adarsh Venkannagari | The Daily Item | What is an arpeggio? |
a production of the tones of a chord one after another
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| 102 | Josephine Gautier | The Martha's Vineyard Times | Something described as circadian: |
occurs in 24-hour cycles
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| 104 | Divya Choudhary | WXYZ Channel 7 | What is a nautilus? |
a mollusk with a spiral shell
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| 105 | Joshua Diocares | Kent Intermediate School District | What is a trellis? |
a frame made of crossing pieces of wood
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| 110 | Rhys Miller | Traverse City Record-Eagle | Something described as sardonic is: |
marked by mockery
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| 111 | Aryan Khedkar | Oakland Schools Education Foundation | Weather described as inclement is: |
rough or stormy
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| 112 | Yupeng Chen | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What is a genome? |
a set of chromosomes and the genes they contain
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| 113 | Kai Riedner | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What is a spinosity? |
a prickly or difficult thing
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| 114 | Jacob Warner | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | A pontiff is: |
a chief religious figure
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| 115 | Jaden Go | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | Another word for statuesque is: |
majestic
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| 117 | Roberto Villasboas | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | Where would you find a vestibule? |
between the outer door and the interior of a building
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| 118 | William Rausch | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What would you most likely do with a clavichord? |
play music with it
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| 119 | Holland Vogel | The Minnesota Service Cooperatives | What does a soothsayer do? |
predict the future
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| 121 | Azariah Green | C Spire Foundation | An annulment is: |
a pronouncement declaring the invalidity of a marriage
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| 123 | Aanya Shetty | Columbia Missourian | What does it mean to sashay? |
to walk around in such a way as to attract attention
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| 124 | Garrett Fry | Mid-Continent Public Library | If something evokes pathos, it evokes: |
pity or compassion
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| 125 | Mariah Coffey | Raymore-Peculiar School District | If you jettison something, you: |
dye it a deep, rich black
Correct answer: drop it from an airplane in flight
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| 127 | Kunal Patel | A.C.E.S. | What is rosin used for? |
making varnishes
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| 128 | Ellie Wattenbarger | Mosaic Life Care Foundation | What does it mean to liaise? |
to establish communication to develop mutual understanding
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| 129 | Sonia Kulkarni | Saint Louis University | Something described as oblique is: |
slanting in direction or position
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| 130 | Cheyenne Wang | Montana Television Network | What does it mean to consecrate? |
make or declare sacred
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| 131 | Sarah Fernandes | Omaha Sports Commission | An amalgam is: |
a mixture of elements
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| 132 | Arabella Mendoza | The Public Education Foundation | What is remuneration? |
compensation for a loss or expense
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| 134 | Amritanshu Pradhan | New Hampshire Union Leader | Rudiments are: |
fundamental skills taught or learned
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| 136 | Olivia Rhee | Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs | Another word for simpatico is: |
likable
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| 137 | Kavya Jakasania | Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs | A cassock is: |
a full-length close-fitting robe
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| 138 | Mariam Belkouchi | Sidelines and Stages | A person described as corpulent has: |
a bulky body
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| 139 | Harini Murali | Press Communications | In music, fortissimo means: |
very loud
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| 140 | Juliette Anderson | The Albuquerque Journal | A scythe is: |
a tool used to cut grass or certain crops
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| 143 | Noah Kaplan | SNSB Region Four Bee | Obloquy is: |
condemnatory language
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| 144 | Olivia Lipiec | ScholarSkills for STARS | Pulchritude is: |
physical beauty
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| 145 | YY Liang | ScholarSkills for STARS | What is a portico? |
a covered walkway typically at the entrance of a building
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| 146 | Victor Yang | ScholarSkills for STARS | A person described as mendacious is: |
prone to lying
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| 147 | Anna Korneeva | NYC Department of Education | What is a zygote? |
a fertilized egg
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| 148 | Jay Nayak | NYC Department of Education | Tosh is: |
foolish talk or actions
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| 149 | Ryan Creary | Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES | What is another word for erstwhile? |
former
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| 150 | Nyarah Garver | The Daily Star | What is prosody? |
the systematic study of metrical structure in verse
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| 151 | Leah Rini | Champlain Valley Educational Services | If something is done fatuously, it is done: |
in a silly, foolish, or absurd manner
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| 152 | Simran Sanders | The Post-Standard | What is titration? |
a determination of the reactive capacity of a solution
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| 153 | Micah Sterling | Watertown Daily Times | When people expatiate, they: |
speak on a topic in great detail
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| 154 | Aishwarya Kallakuri | Carolina Panthers | Agave is a type of: |
plant
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| 155 | Ananya Prassanna | Carolina Panthers | What is repartee? |
a back-and-forth of clever replies
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| 156 | Harini Jayakumar | Carolina Panthers | Someone described as antiquarian: |
buys and sells old books
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| 157 | Phaneendra Bulusu | Carolina Panthers | Something described as pecuniary: |
consists of money
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| 159 | Angelo Aldoph | Cumberland County Schools | Espousal is: |
an act of supporting a belief or cause
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| 161 | Orrin Lam | Johnston County Public Schools | What is coriander? |
a pungent herb used in cooking
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| 162 | Luna Gasevic | ND Association of County Superintendents | What does it mean to besmirch something? |
to stain or tarnish it
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| 163 | Zach Yeager | Akron Beacon Journal | What is another word for mollify? |
soothe
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| 164 | Meredith Dunlap | Ohio University College of Business | A menagerie is: |
a collection of wild animals
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| 166 | Logan Cox | The Repository | What are regalia? |
insignia that indicate an office or membership in a group
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| 167 | Emily Castilla | WCPO 9 | What is a sylph? |
an imaginary being said to inhabit the air
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| 168 | Avinav Prem Anand | SNSB Region Two Bee | Something described as astringent: |
tightens cells or draws together soft tissues
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| 170 | Aurora Spisak | Wright State University | Another term for the patella is: |
kneecap
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| 172 | Ope Balogun | The Lima News | Another word for inerrancy is: |
infallibility
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| 176 | Brheanna Boyles | The Herald-Star | Profligacy refers to: |
reckless extravagance and wastefulness
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| 177 | Advait Nishit | SNSB Region Two Bee | A rapscallion is: |
a rascal or scoundrel
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| 178 | Kendall Mehl | The Blade | Someone described as venerable is: |
deserving of respect
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| 179 | Joey Constantine | WFMJ Television, Inc. | Something described as staid is: |
serious or grave
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| 180 | Adora Zhang | Oklahoma City Thunder | A zeppelin is a type of: |
airship
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| 181 | Nico Reens | 2 News Oklahoma | What is an entente? |
an international agreement that is less binding than an alliance
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| 182 | Rubina Wiedemer | Telemundo Portland | To acquiesce is to: |
accept without protest
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| 183 | Charan Garimella | Chester County Intermediate Unit | Another word for plangency is: |
expressiveness
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| 184 | Akshaj Somisetty | WITF Public Media | Burgoo is a type of: |
stew
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| 185 | Indigo Satko | Pennsylvania State Education Association and Council for the Advancement of Public Schools | What is a requisition? |
a demand made in writing for something that is not automatically provided
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| 186 | Hillel Ziskind | Delaware County Intermediate Unit | Something described as beatific is: |
marked by complete bliss
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| 187 | Jayden Jiang | WHYY | What does it mean to grouse? |
to complain
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| 188 | Leul Geremew | WHYY | Someone described as unctuous is: |
smug and falsely earnest
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| 189 | Raana Parchuri | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Froufrou is: |
excessive decoration in clothing
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| 191 | Aaditya Aiyer | Diamond City Sports | What does it mean to metastasize? |
to spread from an original site of disease to another part of the body
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| 192 | Mariana Pérez González | Eureka Enrichment Services, Inc. | What is a harangue? |
a rant
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| 193 | Elliana Pagliarini | The Valley Breeze | Something described as exogenous: |
originates from or is due to external causes
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| 194 | Cate Angle | The Post and Courier | What does an impresario do? |
manages or conducts an opera or concert
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| 195 | Mallory Greene | Carolina Panthers | Which of the following is another word for inimical? |
hostile
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| 196 | Connor Norton | Pee Dee Education Center | If something is described as impromptu, it is done: |
without previous preparation
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| 197 | Logan Edwards | Carolina Panthers | What does it mean to dissemble? |
hide facts or feelings
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| 199 | Rayaan Ahmad | University of South Dakota | If something is described as recriminatory, it: |
has the character of a counter accusation
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| 200 | Josh Verma | University of Memphis | A chinook is a type of: |
warm dry wind
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| 202 | Mina Chen | Tennessee Titans | Something described as retrograde is: |
moving backwards
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| 204 | Jayden Zheng | Education Credit Union | The provenance of something is its: |
place of origin
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| 205 | Tarini Nandakumar | Sweet Success ATX | What is a halibut? |
a type of flatfish
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| 206 | Anthony Reyes | KRIS Communications | A periwinkle is a type of: |
ornamental plant
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| 207 | Faizan Zaki | Dallas Sports Commission | A splenetic person can be described as: |
bad-tempered
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| 208 | Sriya Gomatam | Dallas Sports Commission | Someone who is ensconced is: |
firmly or comfortably settled
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| 209 | Chioma Egbuonu | EPISD Education Foundation | A chimera is created from: |
parts of various real or imaginary animals
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| 210 | Tanya Kadaru | Texas Christian University | Something described as spurious is: |
outwardly comparable to something without having its genuine qualities
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| 211 | Ishika Varipilli | Houston Community College | A parabola is a type of: |
curve
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| 212 | Kirsten Santos | Houston Community College | Which of the following is an example of a tributary? |
a river feeding into a larger river
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| 213 | Vir Lagad | Houston Community College | Where would you find phalanges? |
in the hand or foot
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| 214 | Alejandro Martinez | Laredo Morning Times | What is a patronymic? |
a name derived from one's father or his ancestor
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| 215 | Michael Tesfaye | Ramar Communications | Suet is a type of: |
ancient grain
Correct answer: hard fat
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| 216 | Caleb Giuoco | Rio Grande Valley AIM Media Texas | Something described as crepuscular: |
is active in the evening
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| 217 | Shreeya Sivakumar | Midland Reporter-Telegram | Something described as quintessential is: |
the purest of its kind
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| 218 | Jaynard Quiray | Ector County Independent School District | To purvey is to: |
examine something closely in order to understand the details
Correct answer: make available something that's wanted or needed
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| 220 | Siyona Kandala | University of Texas at San Antonio - College of Education & Human Development | Polysemy refers to: |
the state of having extra chromosomes
Correct answer: the quality of having multiple meanings
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| 221 | Lucas Lee | Victoria Advocate | Something described as farcical: |
is so silly as to provoke laughter
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| 226 | Brooke Powell | The City Journals | What is tiffin? |
a midday meal
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| 227 | Sophia Montana | The City Journals | Another word for evanescent is: |
short-lived
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| 229 | Oviya Amalraj | Loudoun County Public Schools | Someone described as repentant is experiencing: |
regret for past actions
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| 230 | Claire Meng | SNSB Region Four Bee | What is a hydrangea? |
a shrub or woody vine with large flower clusters
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| 231 | Dante Pauley | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Danville Area | What does it mean to stipulate? |
state as a term in an agreement
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| 232 | Daphne Reno | Central Rappahannock Regional Library | What is another word for umbrage? |
displeasure
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| 233 | Antony Elgohary | Rockingham District Ruritans | Something described as deleterious is: |
damaging
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| 234 | Siya Sampath | InsideNoVa/Prince William | Vagabonds are: |
people who wander about from place to place
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| 235 | Ankita Balaji | Fairfax County Council PTA | Ritziness is the quality of being: |
luxurious or elegant
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| 236 | Nargiza Muzhapaer | Fairfax County Council PTA | Something described as portentous is: |
foreshadowing a coming event
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| 237 | Rohith Konduri | WHRO Public Media | A pagoda is most like: |
a tower
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| 238 | Audrey Lee | Radford University | Someone described as perspicacious is: |
keen, shrewd, or clever
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| 240 | Declan Mallady | Town Hall Seattle | An osprey is a type of: |
hawk
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| 242 | Isaac Boyce | The Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram | A person described as avuncular is: |
acting kindly like an uncle
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| 243 | Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya | Wisconsin State Journal | If you study sabermetrics, you know a lot about: |
baseball
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| 244 | Nethraa Muthupandiyaraja | Wisconsin State Journal | What is a glissando? |
a quick series of consecutive notes played on an instrument
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| 245 | Eli Jernigan | Sweetwater County BOCES | How would one best describe a transmontane area? |
lying on the farther side of a mountain range
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