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Dev Shah

age 15 | grade 8
SNSB Region One Bee
Largo, Florida
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Dev is the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
Round Word/Question Spelling/Answer Given
1 ardoise
ardoise
2 Grotesqueness is the quality of being:
comically out of place or absurd
3 cocomat
cocomat
4 exhortation
exhortation
5 What does it mean to glower?
to look or stare with sullen brooding annoyance or anger
6 Perioeci
Perioeci
7 Who would most likely practice legerdemain?
a magician
8 poliorcetics
poliorcetics
9 schistorrhachis
schistorrhachis
10 Someone who engages in chiromancy:
tells fortunes using lines on the palm of the hand
11 aegagrus
aegagrus
12 rommack
rommack
13 tolsester
tolsester
14 bathypitotmeter
bathypitotmeter
15 psammophile
psammophile
journey to the Scripps National Spelling Bee
winning word in qualifying spelling bee
fustanella
other words spelled correctly in local competition
fulbright, agrypnia, myocarditis, spick-and-span,