2023 Results
Round 2 - Word Meaning Round
139
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Spellers eliminated in this round finished in 140th place (tied).
| No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
| 4 | Opal Mishra | Arizona Educational Foundation | Something described as subcutaneous: |
is located beneath the skin
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| 5 | Karen Opoku-Appoh | Arizona Educational Foundation | What does it mean to immolate? |
to sacrifice oneself in the interests of some goal or cause
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| 7 | Zeeshan Anower | Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas | Someone described as lugubrious is marked by: |
good humor or high spirits
Correct answer: sorrow or grief
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| 8 | Jean Bounkousonh | KERO Channel 23 | What is clairvoyance? |
the professed ability to see objects which are hidden from view or far away
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| 9 | Dhruv Subramanian | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | Glitterati are: |
people who are famous, attractive, and rich
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| 10 | Justin Tran | SNSB California Regional Bee | Something described as reverberant: |
tends to repeat in echoes
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| 11 | Julia Murillo-Nuñez | Imperial County Office of Education | Indemnity is a type of: |
protection against hurt or loss or damage
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| 12 | Leo Wu | The Office of the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools | A phenotype is: |
a photograph made upon light-sensitive paper
Correct answer: an organism's visible characteristics
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| 13 | Aaron Lim | The Orange County Register | Another word for seraphic is: |
sublime
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| 14 | Avi Randhawa | Riverside County Office of Education | An osteopath is a type of: |
medical practitioner
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| 16 | Phoebe Laguna | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | What does a fabulist create? |
prosthetics
Correct answer: moral stories
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| 17 | Jup Singh | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | What does deglaciation refer to? |
the disappearance of slowly moving masses of ice
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| 18 | Mihir Konkapaka | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Jingoism is: |
loud or arrogant nationalism
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| 19 | Vikrant Chintanaboina | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | What does it mean to obfuscate? |
to make so complex as to cause confusion
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| 20 | Shradha Rachamreddy | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | Something described as minacious is: |
of a threatening character
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| 21 | Arth Dalsania | SAGE Publishing | A sarcophagus is: |
a coffin
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| 22 | Sarvadnya Kadam | Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register | What does it mean to trespass? |
pass over an existing boundary line
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| 23 | Eleanor Jeavons | ECU Regional Bee | What is virulence? |
an instance of inconsistency between otherwise like things
Correct answer: the characteristic of being able to defeat a host's defenses
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| 25 | Isaac Brogan | WFCU Credit Union | Someone described as bumptious is: |
self-assertive to an obnoxious degree
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| 27 | Aditi Muthukumar | The Denver Post | An accomplice is someone who: |
helps another commit a crime
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| 28 | Nathan Settevendemie | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | Someone who is cantankerous is: |
grumpy and argumentative
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| 31 | Jerald Jude Campana | The Washington Informer | A flexitarian has: |
a normally meatless diet that occasionally includes meat or fish
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| 34 | Lizzy Beers | Lee County Spelling Bee | What is a follicle? |
a small cavity
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| 35 | Westin Martin | WJXT | Where would you most likely use litmus? |
in chemistry class
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| 36 | Dev Shah | SNSB Region One Bee | Grotesqueness is the quality of being: |
comically out of place or absurd
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| 37 | Juan Rondeau | Miami Herald | If something is described as auricular, it is: |
perceived through the sense of hearing
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| 38 | Lancaster Gramer | Miami Herald | Merino is a type of: |
heavily veined marble native to Italy
Correct answer: fine wool and cotton yarn used for knitwear
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| 39 | Luke Brown | Collier County Public Schools | A patrician: |
is of noble birth
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| 40 | Evander Turner | Orlando City SC | A syndicate is: |
a loose union of people who extort money
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| 42 | Bruhat Soma | SNSB Region One Bee | An ermine is a type of: |
weasel
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| 43 | Sai Lakkimsetti | Georgia Association of Educators | What does it mean to trounce? |
win victory over in a decisive manner
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| 44 | Matthew Baber | Georgia Association of Educators | What is a cicada? |
a locust
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| 45 | N'Adom Darko-Asare | Young Educators Foundation | What does malaise refer to? |
a general lack of health
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| 46 | Mychelle Kumah | Young Educators Foundation | Another word for piety is: |
devoutness
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| 47 | Janice Nketsiah | Young Educators Foundation | Papyrus is a type of: |
writing material
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| 49 | Sophia Chan | Hawaii State Spelling Bee | A diadem is a type of: |
crown
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| 52 | Navtaj Singh | Lewiston Tribune | What is a soirée? |
a party that happens in the evening
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| 53 | Annette Chu | SNSB Illinois Regional Bee | What is a repository? |
a container, room, or place where something is stored
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| 54 | Lukas Nowak | Will County Regional Office of Education | Carnitas are: |
small pieces of cooked meat
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| 56 | Srinidhi Rao | ComEd and Tyndale House Publishers | A château is: |
a large country house
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| 57 | Steven Jiang | Chicago Public Schools | A noctambulist is a person who: |
walks in their sleep
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| 58 | Khadijah Abdul-Rahman | Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education | What is fondant used for? |
decorating cakes
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| 61 | Francis Nnodi | Kane County Regional Office of Education | What is an example of a brogue? |
a tree frog
Correct answer: an Irish accent
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| 62 | Julissa Negron | Boone-Winnebago Regional Office of Education | Where would you most likely encounter a bonsai? |
in a greenhouse
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| 63 | Vishrut Kinikar | McHenry County Regional Office of Education | A treatise is most like: |
an essay
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| 65 | Alex Ottens | Regional Office of Education #47 | If something has been ballyhooed, it has been: |
overturned in a body of water
Correct answer: advertised by means of cheap sensationalism
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| 66 | Daphne Gil | Lake County Regional Office of Education | What is an arboretum? |
a place where trees and shrubs are grown
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| 68 | Achyut Ethiraj | SNSB Indiana Regional Bee | Something described as importunate is: |
troublesomely urgent
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| 69 | Gavin Sigua | IU School of Education at IUPUI | A person who is contrite is: |
repentant
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| 70 | Sharanya Kar | Lafayette Adult Resource Academy | A funambulist is: |
a tightrope walker
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| 74 | Manu Sripathi | Olathe Public Schools | What is another word for beneficent? |
charitable
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| 76 | Noah Brumfield | Visit Hopkinsville | Turgor refers to: |
a large European flatfish
Correct answer: the normal state of fullness in living cells
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| 77 | Isabella Carver | Visit Hopkinsville | What does it mean to ingratiate? |
fix deeply through repetition
Correct answer: make agreeable to someone
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| 78 | Ian Gibson | Visit Hopkinsville | What is another word for antipathy? |
dislike
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| 79 | Rishaan Reddy | University Laboratory School | An estuary is: |
a water passage where the tide meets the current of a stream
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| 80 | Aiden Pham | Kiwanis Club of Lafayette | What is a billabong? |
a stagnant pond
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| 81 | Kai Richardson | SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC | What are armaments? |
combat weapons and equipment
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| 82 | Nayara de Silva-Ahmed | New Orleans Chapter of The Links | An example of biomimicry would be: |
a bird that imitates another bird's call to impress a mate
Correct answer: a shoe fastener designed like the gripping seeds of a plant
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| 83 | Sahil Thorat | Louisiana State University Shreveport | A hermitage is: |
a private retreat
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| 84 | Evan Trieu | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram | What is murmuration? |
uttering low or continuous noises
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| 86 | Ayesha Syed | Maryland Sports | What does an interlocutor do? |
takes part in a conversation
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| 87 | Larry Liao | The Meakem Group | What is cybernetics? |
the comparative study of communication and control in human and artificial intelligence
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| 88 | Navya Dwivedi | Howard County Library | If something is described as necrotic, it: |
produces death in living tissue
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| 91 | Evangelene Hill | University of Maryland Eastern Shore | What is geocaching? |
a game where players use geographical coordinates to locate items
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| 92 | Tanoshi Inomata | Boston Centers for Youth & Families | Something described as pendulous can: |
linger forever
Correct answer: swing freely
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| 93 | Adarsh Venkannagari | The Daily Item | What are brethren? |
people linked together by a common tie
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| 94 | Emily Demlow | SNSB Michigan and Ohio Regional Bee | Something described as celestial is: |
related to the sky
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| 96 | Anwesha Ahmed | WXYZ Channel 7 | Something described as provincial is: |
unsophisticated
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| 97 | Brady Bowers | Kent ISD | What is trefoil? |
clover
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| 98 | Clara Mervak | Discover Kalamazoo | To fulminate is to communicate: |
menacingly or authoritatively
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| 99 | Owen Smielewski | The County Press | A person who is churlish is: |
rude
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| 101 | Sidhanth Vetrivel | The Herald Palladium | A Requiem is: |
a grand musical hymn in honor of the dead
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| 102 | Hazel Danziger | Traverse City Record-Eagle | Adhesion is: |
individual disharmony with the nature of things
Correct answer: strong connection with a person or concept
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| 103 | Aryan Khedkar | Oakland Schools Education Foundation | An ombudsman is someone who: |
investigates complaints
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| 104 | Vihaan Kapil | Success Beyond the Classroom | Something idiosyncratic is: |
happening at the same time as something else
Correct answer: marked by a peculiar way of behaving or thinking
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| 105 | Maximus Katsoulis | Lakes Country Service Cooperative | A duvet is: |
a warm cover for a bed
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| 110 | Baruni Jakkula | The Commercial Dispatch | What does quiddity refer to? |
the quality of being a busybody or gossip
Correct answer: the essential nature of something
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| 111 | Aanya Shetty | Columbia Missourian | A rebuff is: |
a snub or rejection
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| 112 | Garrett Fry | Mid-Continent Public Library | A graphologist is: |
a specialist in analyzing handwriting
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| 114 | Colby Armes | Three Rivers College | What is tapioca? |
a varnish for wood
Correct answer: starch used to thicken foods
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| 116 | Julianna Mullins | Mosaic Life Care Foundation | Ebullience is: |
defiance
Correct answer: exuberance
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| 117 | Sonia Kulkarni | Saint Louis University | A marimba is a type of: |
xylophone
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| 118 | Natalie Russ | Montana Television Network | Something described as approbatory is expressing: |
condemnation
Correct answer: commendation
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| 119 | Sarah Fernandes | Omaha Sports Commission | What does it mean to acquit oneself well? |
to perform one's duties satisfactorily
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| 121 | Sarina Ali | The Public Education Foundation | A sedge is a type of: |
grasslike herb
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| 122 | Iris LaMoreaux | New Hampshire Union Leader | What is a montage? |
a quick sequence of images in film or TV that establishes theme, mood, or passage of time
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| 123 | Atharv Narvekar | Somerset County Library System | The duodenum is part of the: |
small intestine
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| 125 | Kavya Jakasania | Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs | Striation is the state of being: |
marked with narrow lines or bands
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| 126 | Aria Khambhati | Sidelines and Stages | What is a conduit? |
a motto
Correct answer: a water channel
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| 129 | Keith Lee | The Albuquerque Journal | Another word for pugnacious is: |
aggressive
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| 130 | Saheb Sarkar | Corning Rotary Club | A remonstrance is: |
a sum of money sent to another person or place
Correct answer: an act of saying or pleading in protest or opposition
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| 132 | Noah Kaplan | SNSB New York State Regional Bee | A vermicide is used for destroying: |
worms
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| 133 | Brian Liu | ScholarSkills for STARS | Someone who suffers from agoraphobia is afraid of what? |
open spaces
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| 134 | Lora Wu | ScholarSkills for STARS | Pashmina refers to: |
the under fleece of upland goats
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| 135 | Vale Esposito | ScholarSkills for STARS | Someone exhibiting nonchalance seems: |
indifferent or unconcerned
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| 136 | Stephen Chehata | Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES | What is an acrostic? |
a poem in which initial letters of words or lines spell out a word or name
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| 137 | Richard Tang | The Daily Star | What is an egress? |
a waterfowl
Correct answer: an exit
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| 138 | Simran Sanders | The Post-Standard | An abstemious person is likely to: |
eat sparingly
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| 139 | Micah Sterling | Watertown Daily Times | What is a heptad? |
a group of seven
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| 140 | Ananya Rao Prassanna | Carolina Panthers | A cenotaph is: |
a monument honoring someone who is buried in another place
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| 141 | Peyton Goldenstein | Carolina Panthers | Neonatology is a branch of: |
linguistics that studies newly coined words
Correct answer: medicine concerned with newborn infants
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| 142 | Rex Dover | Carolina Panthers | If something is bedraggled, it is: |
soaked and droopy
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| 143 | Reyansh Joshi | Carolina Panthers | If you give credence to something, you: |
accept it as true
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| 144 | Rishi Jayakumar | Carolina Panthers | Something described as derelict is: |
abandoned or run-down
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| 148 | Lila Rechel | Harnett County Schools | Something described as ursine relates to: |
a liquid
Correct answer: a bear
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| 150 | Luna Gasevic | ND Association of County Superintendents | What is another word for hydrophobia? |
rabies
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| 151 | Emma Liu | Akron Beacon Journal | A person who exhibits savoir faire tends to: |
get along well with others
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| 152 | Tia Geisler | ESC of the Western Reserve | Hypochondria is: |
the point on the earth's surface below a nuclear explosion
Correct answer: extreme concern often centered on imaginary ailments
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| 153 | Avinav Prem Anand | Ohio University College of Business | Something described as banal is: |
ordinary
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| 155 | Tara Rakesh | WCPO 9 | Something described as fungible: |
is shaped like a mushroom
Correct answer: is interchangeable with something else
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| 157 | Advait Nishit | ESC of Northeast Ohio | What is connivery? |
the act of conspiring to cheat or deceive
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| 158 | Bridget Smith | Educational Service Center of Lorain County | What is a fracas? |
a low-intensity earthquake
Correct answer: a loud brawl or fight
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| 159 | Ope Balogun | The Lima News | A capstan is: |
the lookout on the mainmast of a ship
Correct answer: a pulley used to control the magnetic tape on a recorder
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| 160 | Shaylynn Dennis | Salem News, East Liverpool Review and The Morning Journal | A cattalo is: |
a hybrid between the American bison and domestic cow
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| 161 | Henry Corcoran | The Marietta Times | What is the job of an apothecary? |
to dispense medicines
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| 162 | Jacob Theaker | The Times Leader | What is another word for pariah? |
predator
Correct answer: outcast
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| 163 | Andrew Macdonald | The Herald-Star | A misnomer is: |
an incorrect designation or term
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| 164 | Lainey Gardner | The Blade | To be cognizant of something is to be: |
willfully ignorant about it
Correct answer: aware of it
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| 165 | Joey Constantine | WFMJ Television, Inc. | What does encroach mean? |
to gradually intrude into another's territory
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| 166 | Archer Thompson | Oklahoma City Thunder | What is an alma mater? |
a school from which one has graduated
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| 167 | Hannah Kauffman | 2 News Oklahoma | If something is described as geriatric, it: |
relates to elderly people
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| 168 | Rohan Sekar | Pamplin Media Group | Which of these would most likely be described as austere? |
a prediction of good luck
Correct answer: an empty white room
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| 169 | Christian Miller | Chester County Intermediate Unit | Where would you encounter a pinnacle? |
at the top of a mountain
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| 170 | Kenzo Veron | WITF: Public Media for Central Pennsylvania | What is a wunderkind? |
a person who thrives in a challenging field at a young age
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| 172 | Pranav Anandh | Delaware County Intermediate Unit | What does it mean to adjudicate? |
to judge or decide on
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| 174 | Sandhana Rajesh | WHYY | A chemise is a type of: |
clothing
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| 176 | Isaac Geremew | WHYY | What is another word for extrapolate? |
infer
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| 177 | Raana Parchuri | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A phylum is: |
a division or category of the animal kingdom
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| 178 | Tyler Kulikosky | The Republican Herald | An affluent person is: |
wealthy
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| 182 | Siqi Fang | The Post and Courier | What is blarney? |
smooth flattering talk
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| 183 | Luc Calagsing | Pee Dee Education Center | Tiramisu is a type of: |
dessert
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| 185 | Charli Fickbohm | University of South Dakota | If something is described as cryogenic, it: |
involves the use of very low temperatures
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| 186 | Audrey Dougherty | Tennessee Titans | What is ascension? |
the process of rising upward to a higher degree or level
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| 187 | Rainaa Bhupesh | University of Memphis | Something described as vicarious is experienced: |
through imaginative participation in the experience of another
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| 188 | Armaan Singhvi | Tennessee Titans | If something is described as intuitable, it is: |
knowable by insight or without reasoning
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| 189 | Sariah Titus | Kiwanis Club of Abilene | Something described as lumbar is: |
related to or near the vertebrae of the lower back
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| 190 | Jayden Zheng | Education Credit Union | Malapropism is: |
a blundering, often ludicrous use of the wrong word
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| 191 | Shrethan Botla | Sweet Success ATX | What is another word for propinquity? |
proximity
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| 192 | Tarini Nandakumar | Sweet Success ATX | If something is described as languorous, it: |
produces listless indolence or dreaminess
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| 193 | Jaxon Escobar | KRIS Communications | What is rustication? |
a reddish porous coating
Correct answer: retirement to or residence in the country
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| 194 | Sriya Gomatam | Dallas Sports Commission | What is another term for gypsum? |
plasterboard
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| 195 | Faizan Zaki | Dallas Sports Commission | If you corral a herd, you: |
gather and confine it
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| 196 | Arnav Tonde | EPISD Education Foundation | What is an echelon? |
a level in an organization
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| 197 | Brihasa Veduru | Texas Christian University | A corollary is: |
a proposition that naturally follows one just proved
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| 198 | Luke Nguyen | Houston Community College | Something factitious is: |
spontaneous
Correct answer: artificial
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| 199 | Ishika Varipilli | Houston Community College | Something described as orthogonal: |
intersects at right angles
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| 200 | Kirsten Tiffany Santos | Houston Community College | A calabash is a type of: |
gourd
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| 202 | Ava Flores | Ramar Communications | What does it mean to truncate? |
make something shorter by cutting
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| 204 | Shwetha Jayakumar | Midland Reporter-Telegram | A waiver is: |
the act of purposely giving up a known claim or right
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| 205 | Siyona Kandala | The Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre Association | A schism is: |
a division into two disagreeing groups
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| 206 | Ajay Gundlapalli | Ector County Independent School District | What is a conclave? |
an assembly of Catholic cardinals
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| 207 | Akash Vukoti | San Angelo Association of REALTORS | What is mochi? |
a doughlike mass made from cooked rice
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| 208 | Lucas Lee | Victoria Advocate | If something is described as corrosive, it is: |
able to wear away by disintegration
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| 209 | Gabriella Chiang | Rapoport Holdings, LLC | Another word for effervescent is: |
bubbly
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| 210 | Wes Underwood | The Ministry of Education | Something described as leguminous: |
resembles or consists of peas or beans
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| 211 | Abdel-Malik Bazzar | The Virgin Islands Daily News | During which of these activities would tachycardia most likely occur? |
intense exercise
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| 213 | Surya Kapu | The City Journals | Something described as primeval relates to: |
the earliest ages of the world
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| 214 | Elise Cournoyer | VTDigger | What is another word for foible? |
weakness
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| 215 | Ruby Kadera | SNSB Region Two Bee | What is another word for sacrosanct? |
inviolable
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| 216 | Nathaniel Hersey | The Daily Progress and News Virginian | What is the epitome of something? |
its highest point
Correct answer: its essence or embodiment
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| 217 | Kamsi Ezugwu | Big Brothers and Big Sisters | Someone described as ingenuous is: |
sophisticated
Correct answer: naive
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| 218 | Luke DiMaso | Central Rappahannock Regional Library | What does it mean to vanquish? |
defeat an opponent in a battle or contest
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| 219 | Bryan Milstead | Rockingham District Ruritans | What does it mean to ruminate? |
carefully think about something
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| 220 | Oviya Amalraj | Loudoun County Public Schools | When would it be best to say adieu? |
when saying goodbye
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| 221 | Graham Woodruff | The News & Advance | If something is vitriolic, it is: |
characterized by a sharp biting quality
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| 222 | Siya Sampath | InsideNoVa/Prince William | What is a legionnaire? |
a member of a national association of veterans
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| 223 | Charlotte Walsh | Fairfax County Council PTA | Someone described as vainglorious is: |
boastful
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| 224 | Rohith Konduri | WHRO Public Media | A peony is a type of: |
flowering plant
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| 227 | Sanchali Bohacek | Town Hall Seattle | If something is tectonic, it relates to: |
the folding of the earth's crust
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| 228 | Madeline Feinstein | Charleston Gazette-Mail | What does absolution refer to? |
a ceremony for the pardoning of sins
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| 229 | Isaac Boyce | The Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram | Which is an example of matriculation? |
being admitted to a college
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| 230 | Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya | Wisconsin State Journal | What is a meridian? |
a great circle of the celestial sphere passing through its poles and the zenith
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