1st Round: warm-up question followed by a word
2nd Round: 3 words in succession for each contestant
3rd Round: Round-robin until we have a winner (keep track of last three - the order they come in)
3 mispelled words and a contestant is out
Pronouncer Information 1. Read carefully the Judges, Recorders, Spellers and Audiences information that is included in the Scripps pronouncers’ guide. 2. Familiarize yourself with all words on the confidential word list. Pronunciation is important. A meeting with the judges to insure pronunciation of words and procedures will be scheduled prior to the Bee beginning. 3. Speak clearly for contestants, judges and audience alike. Grant all requests to repeat a word until the judges agree that the word has been made reasonably clear to the speller. You may request the speller to speak more clearly or louder. 4. “Pace” yourself. You need time to focus attention on the pronunciation of the new word and the judges need a few moments between each contestant to do their tasks.
Speller’s Information 1. Each speller needs to focus on the Pronouncer, to aid his or her hearing and understanding of the context of the word. A speller may ask for the word to be repeated, for its use in a sentence, for a definition, for the part of speech, and for the language of origin. 2. Each speller should pronounce the word before and after spelling it. If the speller fails to pronounce the word after spelling it, the judge may ask if they are finished. If they say yes, the judge will remind the speller to remember to repeat the word the next time. (No speller will be eliminated for failing to pronounce a word.) 3. When a speller is at the podium spelling, the next speller should be standing at a marked location ready to proceed to the podium.
235) spurious In what appeared to be a thinly veiled reference to politics in the Age of Trump, Sen. John McCain on Monday warned Americans against "half-baked, spurious nationalism," calling the abandonment of U.S. global leadership “unpatriotic.”
— Scott Neuman, NPR (npr.org), 17 Oct. 2017
236) descry
237) vituperate
238) apodictic
239) epistemic
240) apoplectic “You Can’t Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment [Vanity Fair, Nov. 1, 2017]
241) palliate
242) panacea
243) archetype
244) ostensibly
245) preoccupation
246) variegate
247) belaud
248) disingenuous
249) annihilate
250) mucilaginous
251) numen
252) anneal
253) gentrification
254) schizophrenia
255) scurrilous
256) anachronism
257) intelligence
258) maieutic
259) esemplastic
260) androgynous
261) cachinnate
248) disingenuous
249) annihilate
250) mucilaginous
251) numen
252) anneal
253) gentrification
254) schizophrenia
255) scurrilous
256) anachronism
257) intelligence
258) maieutic
259) esemplastic
260) androgynous
261) cachinnate
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