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Info
Stage: Preliminaries
Value: 3 points each
Word Count: 281
Spellers Participating: 281
Spellers Eliminated: 15
Spellers Advancing: 266
Percent Advancing: 94.7%
Words
| glasnost |
| shrieval |
| ocelot |
| Eocene |
| mandir |
| facetious |
| perestroika |
| tertiary |
| Baedeker |
| gauche |
| recidivist |
| trattoria |
| gourami |
| prabhu |
| kirtle |
| fuselage |
| Holi |
| escargot |
| Qatari |
| kohlrabi |
| cynosure |
| commissar |
| sachem |
| prosciutto |
| anachronism |
| charpoy |
| graupel |
| roodebok |
| doctrinaire |
| schnecke |
| alcazar |
| trepak |
| misogynist |
| surveillance |
| zephyr |
| borzoi |
| commensurate |
| galjoen |
| repertoire |
| tuckahoe |
| buddha |
| voortrekker |
| isinglass |
| garçon |
| pizzicato |
| gesundheit |
| zucchini |
| lokshen |
| bureaucracy |
| nisei |
| ecru |
| gynarchy |
| Weissnichtwo |
| paradigm |
| tchotchke |
| coati |
| jeremiad |
| peccadillo |
| virgule |
| hartebeest |
| poinsettia |
| ingenue |
| beleaguer |
| embarcadero |
| schottische |
| Hemerocallis |
| troika |
| vivace |
| Romaji |
| Fahrenheit |
| keest |
| Croesus |
| rejoneador |
| synchronous |
| Bobadil |
| algorithm |
| hollandaise |
| einkorn |
| corpuscle |
| tanha |
| poignant |
| hoomalimali |
| fennec |
| mynheer |
| perennial |
| maraschino |
| boysenberry |
| scherzo |
| Meistersinger |
| diphthong |
| intaglio |
| narcissistic |
| springbok |
| bobbejaan |
| sauerbraten |
| Meiji |
| calypso |
| euthanasia |
| quinine |
| jnana |
| sarsaparilla |
| wainscot |
| egregious |
| carafe |
| terrapin |
| glockenspiel |
| hippopotamus |
| muishond |
| ostentatious |
| vaquero |
| archipelago |
| coloratura |
| kuruma |
| camphor |
| recalcitrant |
| philhellenism |
| asana |
| Backstein |
| notochord |
| salve |
| cappelletti |
| philanthropy |
| apartheid |
| hierarchy |
| protégé |
| ameliorate |
| barukhzy |
| foggara |
| asthmogenic |
| picaresque |
| tokamak |
| raconteur |
| mayonnaise |
| inselberg |
| bhalu |
| cachet |
| mihrab |
| opossum |
| fantoccini |
| durwan |
| chassis |
| accommodate |
| mozzarella |
| pneumatic |
| hypocrisy |
| Beetewk |
| succotash |
| precipice |
| nachtmusik |
| tarragon |
| eiderdown |
| melange |
| banzai |
| hafiz |
| saboteur |
| schipperke |
| entourage |
| caballero |
| juggernaut |
| philately |
| witloof |
| quixote |
| euphemism |
| apparatchik |
| douane |
| madeleine |
| coffle |
| khor |
| bildungsroman |
| precocious |
| susceptible |
| weimaraner |
| toboggan |
| camouflage |
| herpetology |
| belligerent |
| segue |
| dyslexia |
| paparazzo |
| serdab |
| charlatan |
| Panglossian |
| karaoke |
| gymkhana |
| détente |
| heifer |
| philippic |
| kovsh |
| zeitgeber |
| braggadocio |
| conquistador |
| menhaden |
| renaissance |
| schloss |
| maelstrom |
| realschule |
| dressage |
| jacamar |
| guillotine |
| amphibious |
| mystique |
| fastidious |
| rottweiler |
| capricious |
| garibaldi |
| pickelhaube |
| bellicose |
| waterzooi |
| gnathonic |
| exacerbate |
| dichotomy |
| visceral |
| fraulein |
| koan |
| pernicious |
| innocuous |
| quisling |
| chauvinism |
| springerle |
| rendezvous |
| sassafras |
| aggregate |
| langlauf |
| mistletoe |
| pasteurize |
| nenuphar |
| balalaika |
| kibei |
| flense |
| mnemonic |
| kielbasa |
| boudoir |
| chagrin |
| Geronimo |
| taupe |
| topeng |
| ephemeral |
| mahout |
| verboten |
| echt |
| mediocre |
| samovar |
| babka |
| prerogative |
| dahlia |
| kishke |
| novillero |
| zwinger |
| bezoar |
| erudite |
| keeshond |
| comandante |
| lieutenant |
| gingham |
| hyperbole |
| schadenfreude |
| cheka |
| pogrom |
| tachometer |
| indigenous |
| Bolshevik |
| mercerize |
| salaam |
| Forsythia |
| edelweiss |
| punctilio |
| halal |
| Wiccan |
| anschluss |
| soliloquy |
| gopak |
| genre |
| bromeliad |
| raita |
| periphery |
| azimuth |
| vorlage |
| ipecac |
| crescendo |
| alim |
| fusillade |
Round Results
| Preliminaries | Semifinals | Championship Finals |
| Preliminaries Test | Semifinals Test | Round 7 |
| Round 2 Vocabulary | Round 5 Vocabulary | Round 8 |
| Round 2 | Round 5 | Round 9 |
| Round 3 Vocabulary | Round 6 Vocabulary | Round 10 |
| Round 3 | Round 6 | Round 11 |
| Round 12 | ||
| Round 13 | ||
| Round 14 | ||
| Round 15 | ||
| Round 16 |