Spelling Bee

Final Round
 RULES
• Final round will be conducted in two parts.
• The first part will be a rapid fire round, each team will be given
time of 40 seconds.
• The second part will be a buzzer round, the team that presses the
buzzer first will spell the word.
• There will be negative marking for spelling the word incorrectly.
• Due to this negative marking, it is advised to press the buzzer
wisely.
Rapid Fire Round
1. Grits
• Noun
• Porridge made from boiled cornmeal
2. Ripple
• Noun
• A short wave
3. Cahoots
• Noun
• Partnership, league
4. Fiercest
• Adjective
• Violently hostile
5. Pruners
• Noun
• A person who prunes
• A tool used in pruning
6. Vigneron
• Noun
• A person who cultivates grapes for winemaking
7. Sorghum
• Noun
• A plant grown in hot and dry areas
8. Lebensraum
• Noun
• The territory which a group believes is needed for its development
9. Tarpaulin
• Noun
• Heavy-duty waterproof cloth
10. Oxalis
• Noun
• a plant that has heart-shaped leaves, of the genus Oxalis
11. Toroidal
• Adjective
• Having the shape of a toroid
12. Guilloche
• Noun
• An ornamental pattern or border
13. Clematis
• Noun
• A climbing plant of the buttercup family
14. Appurtenances
• Noun
• Accessory objects
15. Limicolous
• Adjective
• Living in mud
16. Leonine
• Adjective
• Resembling a lion
17. Immiscible
• Adjective
• Incapable of mixing
18. Exaugural
• Adjective
• Occurring at or marking the close of a term of office
19. Grison
• Noun
• A weasel-like mammal with dark fur and a white stripe across
the forehead
20. Hilum
• Noun
• A notch in or opening from a bodily part
21. Concinnate
• Verb, adjective
• Put together neatly
22. Solenoid
• Noun
• A coil of wire usually in cylindrical form
23. Veridical
• Adjective
• Genuine
24. Threnody
• Noun
• Poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead
person
25. Corsair
• Noun
• Pirate
26. Calumny
• Noun
• A misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
27. Samarium
• Noun
• A silvery-white metal belonging to the lanthanide group of the
periodic table
28. Martinet
• Noun
• A strict disciplinarian
29. Sepulchral
• Adjective
• Relating to a tomb
30. Asterion
• Noun
• The point behind the ear where the parietal, temporal, and occipital
bones meet
31. Toxicosis
• Noun
• A pathological condition caused by the action of a poison or toxin
32. Palaver
• Noun
• Idle talk
33. Oolite
• Noun
• A rock consisting of small round grains usually of calcium carbonate
cemented together
34. Vermeil
• Noun
• Gilded silver
35. Myeloma
• Noun
• A primary tumor of the bone marrow
36. Saccharide
• Noun
• Sugar, unit structure of carbohydrates
37. Nubilous
• Adjective
• Cloudy , vague
38. Coulumb
• Noun
• Standard unit of electric charge
39. Damson
• Noun
• A kind of plum
40. Satiety
• Noun
• Fullness
41. Cinerarium
• Noun
• A place to receive the ashes of the cremated dead
42. Entomophagy
• Noun
• The practice of eating insects
43. Immure
• Verb
• Imprison
44. Gentian
• Noun
• A small plant with a blue or purple flower shaped like a bell which
grows in mountain regions
45. Warison
• Noun
• A bugle call to attack
46. Woad
• Noun
• A yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family
47. Arthralgia
• Noun
• Pain in one or more joints
48. Predilection
• Noun
• An established preference for something
49. Allelopathy
• Noun
• The suppression of growth of one plant species by another due to the
release of toxic substances
50. Emanant
• Adjective
• Flowing forth
51. Synod
• Noun
• An assembly of the clergy
52. Vireo
• Noun
• Any of various small insectivorous American oscine birds
53. Paladin
• Noun
• A leading champion of a cause
54. Cyrillic
• Adjective
• Constituting an alphabet used for writing Slavic, Russian and a
number of other languages of eastern Europe and Asia
55. Histolysis
• Noun
• The breakdown of bodily tissues
56. Elision
• Noun
• Omission
57. Halogen
• Noun
• Salt-former; any of the five elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine,
iodine, and astatine that form part of group VIIA of the periodic table
and exist in the free state normally as diatomic molecules
58. Tartaric
• Adjective
• Resembling tartar
59. Guanine
• Noun
• A purine base C5H5N5O that codes genetic information in the
polynucleotide chain of DNA or RNA
60. Accordance
• Noun
• Conformity
61. Teflon
• Noun
• A tough synthetic resin made by polymerizing tetrafluroethylene
62. Palindrome
• Noun
• A word, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward
63. Calamitous
• Adjective
• Causing or accompanied by calamity
64. Palsy
• Noun
• Paralysis
65. Smelters
• Noun
• A worker who smelts
66. Denouncement
• Noun
• A public act of denouncing
67. Commodore
• Noun
• A captain in the navy in command of a squadron
68. Intriguing
• Adjective
• Fascinating
69. Precariously
• Adverb
• In a way that is uncertain or dependent on chance
70. Suffused
• Verb
• Flush, fill
71. Contaminated
• Adjective
• Corrupted, infected
72. Reluctant
• Adjective
• Hesitant
73. Bayonet
• Noun
• A long, sharp blade that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as
a weapon
74. Marinate
• Verb
• To coat or cover (food) with herbs or spices
75. Haughty
• Adjective
• Disdainfully proud
76. Parachuted
• Verb
• Descended by means of a parachute
77. Apprentice
• Noun
• One who learns
78. Candelabrum
• Noun
• A large branched candlestick
79. Melismatic
• Noun
• A group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong
80. Bariatrics
• Noun
• A branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of obesity
Buzzer Round
1. Apostate
• Noun
• One who refuses to follow a religious faith
2. Guinea
• Noun
• A unit of value equal to one pound and one shilling
3. Annexation
• Noun
• Addition of an area to a country
4. Truculence
• Noun
• The quality or attitude of being aggressively hostile
5. Flippancy
• Noun
• Lack of respect
6. Covetous
• Adjective
• Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to
someone else
7. Portcullis
• Noun
• A strong, heavy grating that can be lowered down grooves on each
side of a gateway to block it.
8. Obsidian
• Noun
• A dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava
9. Aspersions
• Noun
• Defamation
10. Irascible
• Adjective
• Having a tendency to be easily angered
11. Conglomerate
• Adjective
• Made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds
12. Obituary
• Noun
• A notice of a person’s death
13. Sequester
• Verb
• Segregate
14. Equanimity
• Noun
• Balance of mind
15. Claustrophobia
• Noun
• Abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces
16. Comestibles
• Adjective, noun
• Edible
17. Unanimous
• Adjective
• Being of one mind
18. Ostracism
• Noun
• Exclusion from a society or group
19. Pearlescent
• Adjective
• Having a pearly luster
20. Hieroglyphics
• Noun
• Written in pictorial characters
21. Repudiate
• Verb
• To refuse
22. Schnitzel
• Noun
• A thin meal cutlet
23. Marmoset
• Noun
• Any of numerous small soft-furred South and Central American
monkeys
24. Grammarian
• Noun
• A person who studies and writes about grammar
25. Gibbous
• Adjective
• Marked by convexity
26. Nautilus
• Noun
• Any of a genus (Nautilus) of cephalopod mollusks of the South Pacific
and Indian oceans with a spiral chambered shell that is pearly on the
inside
27. Vagabond
• Adjective, noun
• A person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home
28. Annuity
• Noun
• A sum of money payable yearly
29. Italicization
• Noun
• The act of italicizing
30. Loquacious
• Adjective
• Fluent
31. Alfresco
• Adjective, adverb
• Outdoor
32. Variegated
• Adjective
• Varied, having different colors
33. Factitious
• Adjective‘
• Artificially created
34. Solitaire
• Noun
• A single gem set alone
• Any of various card games that can be played by one person
35. Epistolary
• Adjective
• Relating to a letter
36. Tempestuous
• Adjective
• Turbulent
37. Abominable
• Adjective
• Detestable
38. Scarlatina
• Noun
• Scarlet fever
39. Vanquish
• Verb
• To defeat
40. Besmirch
• Verb
• To cause harm or damage to the purity of something
41. Constabulary
• Adjective
• Relating to a constable
42. Adulation
• Noun
• Excessive admiration
43. Depredation
• Noun
• An act of attacking
44. Ambrosial
• Adjective
• Something extremely pleasing to taste or smell
45. Onomatopoeia
• Noun
• The use of words whose sound suggests the sense
46. Lugubrious
• Adjective
• Mournful
47. Arbitrary
• Adjective
• Random, without direction
48. Duplicitous
• Adjective
• Deceptive
49. Declension
• Noun
• Deterioration
50. Tympanum
• Noun
• Eardrum