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Arizona Repertory Theatre’s
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
1925, 1st National Spelling Bee
Wendy Guey, 1996 national champion, winning word "vivisepulture"
"vivisepulture"• Definition: an act or instance of burying
someone alive • Etymology: Latin vivus 'alive' + sepulture
'burying'
Rebecca Sealfon, 1997 national champion, winning word "euonym"
"euonym"• Definition: an appropriate name for a person,
place, or thing • Etymology: 1889; Gk. eu 'good' + onym 'name'
Jody-Anne Maxwell, 1998 national champion, winning word "chiaroscurist"
“chiaroscurist”• Definition: the artistic distribution of light and
dark masses in a picture• Etymology: Italian, from chiaro clear + oscuro
obscure
Nupur Lala, 1999 national champion, winning word "logorrhea"
"logorrhea"• Definition: 1. pathologically incoherent,
repetitious speech. 2. incessant or compulsive talkativeness; wearisome volubility.
• Etymology: 1902, from “logos” + ending from “diarrhea.”
George Abraham Thampy, 2000 national champion, winning word "demarche"
"demarche"• Definition: an action or gesture by a diplomat,
esp. a formal appeal, protest, or the like. • Etymology: French 15th c., from demarché,
“walk, step.”
Sean Conley, 2001 national champion, winning word "succedaneum"
"succedaneum"• Definition: something that is used as a
substitute, especially a medical drug or agent.• Etymology: from Latin succēdāneus following
after, from succēdere to succeed
Pratyush Buddiga, 2002 national champion, winning word "prospicience"
"prospicience"• Definition: seeing ahead; the act of looking
forward.• Etymology: Latin, from prospicientia
Sai R. Gunturi, 2003 national champion, winning word "pococurante"
"pococurante"• Definition: a person who is careless or
indifferent • Etymology: 1755-65, Italian, from poco little +
curante caring
David Scott Pilarski Tidmarsh, 2004 national champion, winning word "autochthonous"
"autochthonous"• Definition: pertaining to autochthons;
aboriginal; indigenous.• Etymology: 1795–1805; from autochthon +
ous.
Anurag Kaskyap, 2005 national champion, winning word "appoggiatura"
"appoggiatura"• Definition: musical term; a note of
embellishment preceding another note and taking a portion of its time.
• Etymology: 1745–55; from Italian, literally: a propping, from appoggiare to prop, support.
Kerry Close, 2006 national champion, winning word "ursprache"
"ursprache"• Definition: a hypothetically reconstructed
parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
• Etymology: from ur- primeval, original + Sprache (language).
Evan M. O'Dorney, 2007 national champion, winning word "serrefine"
"serrefine"• Definition: a small forceps for clamping a
blood vessel.
Sameer Mishra, 2008 national champion, winning word "guerdon"
"guerdon"• Definition: a reward or payment.• Etymology: from Old French gueredon, of
Germanic origin; final element influenced by Latin dōnum (gift).
Kavya Shivaskankar, 2009 national champion, winning word "laodicean"
"laodicean"• Definition: a person who is lukewarm or
indifferent, esp. in religion.• Etymology: 1605–15; referring to the early
Christians of Laodicea.
Anamika Veeramani, 2010 national champion, winning word "stromuhr"
"stromuhr"• Definition: An instrument for measuring the
quantity of blood that flows per unit of time through a blood vessel.