The remaining field of 148 spellers will be narrowed down to about a dozen finalists as the National Spelling Bee continues on Wednesday
Carey Chesire, 13, of Topeka, Kansas, reacts after successfully spelling his word during Wednesday’s quarter-finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.Carey Chesire, 13, of Topeka, Kansas, reacts after successfully spelling his word during Wednesday’s quarter-finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.ended far earlier than he anticipated, the 14-year-old grimaced at the microphone, walked off the stage quietly and exited the ballroom with his mother’s arm draped around his back.
Starting in the quarter-finals, the bee’s word panel can use any of the more than half a million words in Webster’s Unabridged dictionary, plus some geographical names that aren’t even listed in that volume. While the panel tries to maintain a consistent level of difficulty, it can vary from word to word.Achyut was asked to spell the word “sistine”. Derived from the Sistine Chapel, it’s an adjective meaning “a light blue color”.
He has plenty of company. Spellers who place high expectations on themselves based on past performance often fall short. Rare is a speller like Vanya Shivashankar, who came in with enormous buzz in 2015 after years of strong finishes and. Even Shivashankar had a setback the previous year when a written spelling and vocabulary test kept her out of the finals., didn’t make the finals the following year.
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