World News Headlines July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Here are the words from the 2021 National Spelling Bee. All of them are hard. 0 0000 0 0 more Here are the words from the 2021 National Spelling Bee. All of them are hard. July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found July 9, 2021 Under One Ceiling Here are the words from the 2021 National Spelling Bee. All of them are hard. Competitive spelling is one of those magical skills I’m happy to watch others completely obliterate. Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, becoming the first African American to win it since the first competition in 1925. She beat 209 talented young spellers, including 12-year-old runner up Chaitra Thummala, to take home the title, correctly spelling the word “murraya,” defined as “a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees.” In case you’re wondering how you would have fared against a group of super smart, determined, focused young spelling whizzes, here are some of the words from this year’s spelling bee. These are from rounds 12-18 (the really, really hard ones toward the end of the gruelling, long competition), some which saw competitors eliminated, and others which, correctly spelled, propelled them forward into the next round and eventually, to victory. SEE ALSO: Zaila Avant-garde is the first African American to ever win the Scripps National Spelling Bee We’ve dropped the Merriam-Webster definitions beside them, to help if you’re testing your friends and family (National Spelling Bee competitors are allowed to ask for this, so your loved ones are, too). murraya: a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees retene: a crystalline hydrocarbon C18H18 isolated especially from pine tar, rosin oil, and various fossil resins but usually prepared from abietic acid and related compounds by dehydrogenation; 1-methyl-7-isopropyl-phenanthrene neroli oil: a fragrant pale yellow essential oil obtained from flowers chiefly of the sour orange and used especially in cologne and as a flavoring Nepeta: Catmint, (any of a genus (Nepeta) of Old World temperate-zone herbs of the mint family) fewtrils: things of little value fidibus: a paper spill for lighting pipes haltere: one of a pair of club-shaped organs in a dipteran fly that are the modified second pair of wings and function as sensory flight stabilizers athanor: a self-feeding digesting furnace that maintained a uniform and durable heat and was used by alchemists depreter: a finish for a plastered wall made by pressing small stones in the soft plaster consertal: of an igneous rock, of a texture in which the irregularly shaped crystals interlock psychagogic: attractive, persuasive, inspiring; of or relating to psychagogy duchesse: a chaise longue with arms that was popular in 18th century France; or less commonly duchess, a fine lustrous rayon or silk satin for clothing; a very small cream puff with sweet or savory filling used as dessert or served with cocktails thanatophidia: venomous snakes ambystoma: capitalized: a genus (the type of the family Ambystomidae) of common salamanders confined to America and characterized by amphicoelous vertebrae, short prevomers, and internal fertilization; plural: a salamander of the genus Ambystoma theodolite: a surveyor’s instrument for measuring horizontal and usually also vertical angles ancistroid: shaped like a hook : resembling a hook chrysal: a transverse line of crushed fibers in the belly of an archery bow beginning as a pinch cloxacillin: a semisynthetic oral penicillin C19H17ClN3NaO5S effective especially against staphylococci which secrete beta-lactamase regolith: unconsolidated residual or transported material that overlies the solid rock on the earth, moon, or a planet Related Related posts: Iran sends recorder from downed Ukrainian jetliner to France tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Stephen Colbert to host Virgin Galactic's livestream launching Richard Branson into space next Finally, you can 3D print a turntable – Future Blink
