2025 Results
Round 8 - Vocabulary Round
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Spellers eliminated in this round finished in 36th place (tied).
No. | Speller's Name | Speller's Sponsor | Question | Answer Given |
4 | Esha Marupudi | Arizona Educational Foundation | A monger is: |
a person engaged in the sale of a product
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12 | Aren Lee | San Ramon Valley Rotary Club | What is a lacuna? |
a play on words
Correct answer: a missing part
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20 | Oliver Halkett | Los Angeles County Office of Education | What is a juggernaut? |
a massive, crushing force
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21 | Lawrence Ye | Merced County Office of Education | Something described as littoral is: |
related to the sea shore
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26 | Hannah Kuo | San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools | If something is described as baroque, it: |
has an elaborate design
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30 | Sarvadnya Kadam | Tulare County Office of Education | When people tithe their income, they: |
give a tenth of it to a religious institution
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35 | Ved Raju | The Denver Post | Something described as febrile: |
is characterized by fever
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36 | Nathan Settevendemie | Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society | What is an acclivity? |
an ascending slope of a hill
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39 | Zwe Spacetime | The Washington Informer | Valhalla is a place of: |
honor or glorification
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42 | Nicasio David | Lee County Spelling Bee | Another word for blithesome is: |
oppressive
Correct answer: cheery
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43 | Sree Vidya Siliveri | WJXT | What does it mean to disenfranchise someone? |
to deprive them of a right, such as voting
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45 | Nikhil Sha | Miami Herald | A person described as gauche is: |
lacking in social graces
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53 | Sarv Dharavane | Georgia Association of Educators | What is a diminuendo? |
a gradual decrease in loudness
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70 | Yahya Mohammed | Kane County Regional Office of Education | What is a basilisk? |
an oblong building ending in a semicircular altar
Correct answer: a mythological reptile with poisonous breath that can kill with a single glance
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85 | Zachary Rara | Louisville Free Public Library | A fusillade is: |
a number of shots fired simultaneously
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96 | Lauren Merillana | The Meakem Group | What is celerity? |
rapidity of motion or action
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102 | Adarsh Venkannagari | The Daily Item | What is effrontery? |
arrogant boldness
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136 | Harini Murali | SNSB Region Three Bee | What does it mean to convalesce? |
to get well gradually after being sick
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138 | Ishaan Gupta | Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs | If something is described as endogenous, it: |
originates from within the body
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144 | Brian Liu | SNSB Region Four Bee | Something described as meandrous is: |
winding and rambling
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147 | Jay Nayak | NYC Department of Education | What is another word for juvenescence? |
youthfulness
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155 | Holden Good | Carolina Panthers | What is a tetralogy? |
a series of four connected works
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156 | Aishwarya Kallakuri | Carolina Panthers | What does it mean to ossify? |
to become callous or hardened
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162 | Chilaka Ugobi | ND Association of County Superintendents | What is a pyroclast? |
a fragment of expelled volcanic material
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163 | Zach Yeager | Akron Beacon Journal | What does it mean to inveigle someone? |
to sentence them to punishment
Correct answer: to manipulate them with ingenuity or flattery
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166 | Rujva Patel | WCPO 9 | The term vox populi is used to refer to: |
common opinion
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167 | Avinav Prem Anand | Columbus Blue Jackets | What is timbre? |
the quality of tone distinctive of a singing voice or an instrument
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180 | Vittal Krishnamurthy | SagamoreHill Broadcasting of Portland | A person described as magniloquent: |
uses bombastic, high-flown language
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182 | Akshaj Somisetty | Pennon Education | If something is arborescent, it: |
resembles a tree
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192 | John Donato | The Post and Courier | A person described as a samaritan is: |
compassionate and eager to help
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200 | Vidula Kalathur | Tennessee Titans | Someone described as latitudinarian: |
does not insist on strict enforcement of standards or norms
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202 | Arnie Parat | Education Credit Union | A neologism refers to: |
a new word or expression
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205 | Isaac Cancio | KRIS Communications | What is a scimitar? |
a sword with a curved blade
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207 | Faizan Zaki | Dallas Sports Commission | Something described as sidereal relates to: |
stars or constellations
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210 | Brihasa Veduru | Fort Worth Public Library/Fort Worth Sports Commission | What is recidivism? |
repeated relapse into previous modes of behavior
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220 | Siyona Kandala | BASIS Ed Texas and BASIS Texas Charter Schools, Inc. | A person described as egalitarian: |
believes that all persons are equal
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226 | Roshan Kaushik | The City Journals | Something described as frangible is capable of: |
mutual substitution
Correct answer: being broken
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234 | Nargiza Muzhapaer | Fairfax County Council PTA | Someone who has atherosclerosis: |
has fatty deposits in their arteries
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238 | Declan Mallady | Town Hall Seattle | What is a raconteur known for? |
well-told stories
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241 | Ethan Robert | Wisconsin State Journal | What does thermophilic mean? |
of, relating to, or being an organism growing at a high temperature
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