25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Karen C. (United States of America)
Spelling words used in the Tony Award-winning musical. (Vocabulary.com does not have the following words that were used in the show: vug; qaimaqam; hasenpfeffer; astrobleme; ilspile; elanguescence)
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  1. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  2. chimerical
    like a grotesque product of the imagination
  3. dengue
    a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes
  4. ahimsa
    spiritual doctrine of nonviolence toward all living things
  5. phylactery
    (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer
  6. cow
    female of domestic cattle
  7. flagellate
    whip or scourge; punish as if by whipping
  8. cystitis
    inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters
  9. Mexican
    of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants
  10. chinchilla
    small rodent with soft pearly grey fur
  11. crayon
    writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
  12. crepuscule
    the time of day immediately following sunset
  13. capybara
    pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent
  14. tittup
    to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
  15. camouflage
    an outward semblance misrepresenting the nature of something
  16. Weltanschauung
    a comprehensive view of the world and human life
  17. syzygy
    the straight line configuration of three celestial bodies
  18. dystopia
    state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad
  19. strabismus
    abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
  20. weevil
    a type of beetle with a long snout
  21. vulpine
    resembling or characteristic of a fox
  22. omphaloskepsis
    the contemplation of one's navel; complacent self-absorption
  23. peregrine
    a powerful falcon formerly used in falconry
  24. schematic
    represented in simplified or symbolic form
  25. halitosis
    offensive breath
  26. homunculus
    a person who is tiny or diminutive
  27. coryza
    an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose
  28. zoonosis
    an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
  29. Fabaceae
    a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
  30. antediluvial
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  31. staphylococcus
    spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections
  32. broccoli
    plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds
  33. dinosaur
    an extinct terrestrial reptile of the Mesozoic era
  34. halitosis
    offensive breath
Created on Tue Jun 04 07:15:48 EDT 2013 (updated Thu May 01 13:39:18 EDT 2014)

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