2021 Round 5 Results
Word Meaning Round
42
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Spellers eliminated in this round finished in 43rd place (tied).
| No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
| 1 | Roy Seligman | The Ministry of Education | What would one put an unguent on? |
a blister
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| 3 | Charles Fennell | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | What is one most likely to do with a picadillo? |
eat it
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| 11 | Isabel Liu | Lee County Spelling Bee | If something is turbid, it is: |
feeding on waste
Correct answer: cloudy or muddy
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| 13 | Steven Dubin | The Miami Herald | Someone who is peripatetic: |
suffers from mood swings
Correct answer: performs while moving about
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| 15 | Erik Williams | WJXT | Something described as stridulatory is: |
used in the act of producing a shrill noise
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| 16 | Ananya Augustine | Georgia Association of Educators | Vagaries are: |
changes that are hard to predict or explain
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| 21 | Yena Park | Indiana University | A medical condition that is idiopathic is: |
specific to an individual
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| 23 | Pritikaa Biswas | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis | If you engage in pettifoggery, you: |
make and design formal clothing
Correct answer: quibble over insignificant details
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| 24 | Ishan Ramrakhiani | Northeast Indiana Regional Spelling Bee | If you reprove someone, you: |
administer a mild rebuke
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| 30 | Charan Bala | Howard County Library | What is a heath? |
a decorative circle of stones
Correct answer: a tract of wasteland
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| 32 | Ananya Gautam | The Meakem Group | Cartography involves the making of: |
maps
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| 52 | Bhavana Madini | NYC Regional Spelling Bee | If you tergiversate, you: |
make evasive or ambiguous statements
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| 55 | Emma Sroka | The Post-Standard | Something described as palliatory provides: |
relief or moderation
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| 61 | Sreethan Gajula | Carolina Panthers | If a piece of clothing is described as bespoke, it is: |
custom-made
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| 67 | James Dover | The Gaston Gazette | Probity is most like: |
intellectual curiosity
Correct answer: moral uprightness
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| 73 | Sophia Lopez | Ohio Regional Spelling Bee | Someone on a junket is: |
taking a trip
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| 77 | Rajshekhar Basu Sarkar | The Blade | A saguaro is a type of: |
cactus
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| 78 | Isabella Fletcher | The Herald-Star | Another word for orotund is: |
bombastic
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| 83 | Tara Rakesh | WCPO 9 | A person described as shambolic is: |
unkempt
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| 88 | Pranav Anandh | Delaware County Intermediate Unit | A carceral system consists of: |
prisons
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| 94 | Seoyon Kim | The Valley Breeze | A blandishment tends to be: |
flattering
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| 102 | Akshita Balaji | Fairfax County Council PTA | What is pique? |
offense taken by one slighted or disdained
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| 106 | Ashrita Gandhari | Loudoun County Public Schools | What does it mean to propitiate? |
to appease
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| 108 | Jenna Ng | The Roanoke Times | An ascot is a type of: |
necktie
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| 113 | Avani Joshi | Boone-Winnebago Regional Office of Education | What is sophistry? |
plausible but fallacious reasoning
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| 122 | Sahasrad Sathish | Lake County Regional Office of Education | Coagulation is the process of: |
becoming a thickened, coherent mass
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| 124 | Kathleen Keesey | Regional Office of Education #47 | A laparotomy is a surgical procedure that involves: |
the cutting of the abdominal wall
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| 126 | Amitoj Chouhan | The Dispatch Argus | Something described as invidious is: |
subtle
Correct answer: hateful
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| 129 | Ishya Bhavsar | Kansas Press Association | Something described as dormitive: |
induces sleep
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| 133 | Zaila Avant-garde | New Orleans Chapter of The Links | Trenchancy is the quality of being: |
keenly articulate
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| 143 | Emaan Arshad | Park Hill School District | In what situation would one use a poultice? |
when treating a skin condition
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| 145 | Colette Giezentanner | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | What does Gorgonzola refer to? |
a blue cheese made from cow's milk
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| 146 | Jiya Shetty | Columbia Missourian | Something described as porcine is related to: |
pigs
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| 147 | Pooja Dayaratna | Three Rivers College | A sitzkrieg is: |
warfare characterized by lack of movement
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| 148 | Hannah Fernandes | Omaha World-Herald | The mores of a particular group are their: |
longstanding enemies
Correct answer: fixed customs
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| 150 | Mary Kauffman | KJRH-TV | If you kowtow, you: |
act in an overly flattering way
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| 155 | Vivinsha Veduru | Texas Christian University | If a victory is Pyrrhic, it is achieved: |
at excessive cost
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| 156 | Dhroov Bharatia | Dallas Sports Commission | If you put the kibosh on something, you: |
stop it from happening
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| 158 | Shijay Sivakumar | Ector County Independent School District | The leeward side of something is: |
on the right
Correct answer: downwind
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| 163 | Emmanuel Rimocal | Laredo Morning Times | Someone described as pontifical is: |
pretentiously dignified
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| 164 | Shwetha Jayakumar | Midland Reporter-Telegram | Something described as lenten is: |
baked without the use of yeast
Correct answer: suggestive of fasting or abstinence
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| 166 | Vihaan Sibal | Rapoport Holdings, LLC | If a person is doddery, they are: |
unsteady or trembling
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| 169 | Harini Logan | The Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre Association | Something described as plaintive is: |
melancholy
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| 171 | Akshainie Kamma | West Austin Chamber of Commerce | Another word for disinter is: |
unearth
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| 172 | Tarini Nandakumar | West Austin Chamber of Commerce | Someone described as plangorous is engaged in: |
a loud lamentation
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| 173 | Immanuel Goveas | Wisconsin State Journal | Someone described as jaundiced is exhibiting: |
profound narcissism
Correct answer: distaste or hostility
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| 174 | Maya Jadhav | Wisconsin State Journal | Something described as capacious is: |
able to hold a great deal
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| 177 | Vikram Raju | The Denver Post | Which of the following would be an example of cronyism? |
a governor appointing friends to important positions
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| 181 | Christabel Thiel-Hadjilambrinos | The Albuquerque Journal | To occlude something is to: |
close or obstruct it
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| 183 | Peregrine Lewis | Herald Journal | Garrulity is the quality of being: |
musical
Correct answer: talkative
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| 185 | Aditya Jonnalagedda | The City Journals | What is noblesse oblige? |
an economic system favoring a small group
Correct answer: the duty of a high-status person to help others
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| 190 | Chaitra Thummala | Bay Area Regional Spelling Bee | A skosh is: |
a small amount
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| 191 | Vayun Krishna | Bay Area Regional Spelling Bee | Something described as picayune is: |
of little value, paltry, or measly
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| 195 | Arth Dalsania | SAGE Publishing | A potentate is a: |
teacher
Correct answer: dictator
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| 198 | Baominh Le | The Orange County Register | What does it mean to circumambulate? |
to deceive through evasive speech
Correct answer: to walk around
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| 199 | Sophia Lin | The Orange County Register | Scansion is: |
the conversion of written text into braille
Correct answer: the analysis of a rhythmic structure
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| 200 | Lara Randhawa | The Press-Enterprise | What does a trousseau consist of? |
a framework of beams forming a rigid structure
Correct answer: clothes and other belongings of a bride
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| 207 | Ashley Reed | Pamplin Media Group | If something is ombré, it could be described as: |
shaded gradually from light to dark
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