Given the year, the speller, the definition, the part of speech, and language of origin, you will have to provide the word that was used in the National Spelling Bee that fits that set of items. For this quiz, correct spelling is required, however, if it was a word that was successfully challenged at the Bee, both the intended spelling and the speller's spelling will be accepted as correct. For example, if I gave 1986; Jon Pennington; a medical word for a toothache; noun; Greek through Latin, you would put down odontalgia.
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| 1 | MassogliaB | 492 | 97 |
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| 2 | ShapiroA | 421 | 93 |
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| 3 | ChernicoffS | 408 | 89 |
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| 4 | CooperJ | 336 | 84 |
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| 5 | PenningtonJ | 309 | 80 |
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| 6 | GersonA | 288 | 76 |
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| 7 | Okrent | 228 | 71 |
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| 8 | gregariouschinchilla | 219 | 67 |
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| 9 | WareD | 204 | 63 |
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| 10 | wilsona | 175 | 58 |
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| 11 | MangaserA | 173 | 54 |
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| 12 | PotatoD | 160 | 45 |
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| 12 | BlomE | 160 | 45 |
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| 12 | GoldsteinB | 160 | 45 |
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| 15 | chc | 118 | 34 |
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| 15 | metrognome | 118 | 34 |
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| 17 | BoyerA | 105 | 28 |
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| 18 | OlewnickB | 98 | 23 |
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| 19 | RobinJRichards | 81 | 19 |
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| 20 | GilchM | 55 | 13 |
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| 20 | RaiaB | 55 | 13 |
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| 22 | CamMacInnis | 0 | 4 |
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| 22 | ToporoffS | 0 | 4 |
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1925; Frank Neuhauser; any of several flowery plants having sword-shaped leaves and showy flowers on spikes; noun; Latin; hint: looking for the singular form
1950; Diana Reynard and Colquitt Dean; the state or quality of being characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details; noun; Latin through French; hint: this word doesn't end in -ness
1980; Jacques Bailly; to solve, write, or compose by working studiously at night; verb; Latin; hint: this verb is in present tense
1983; Blake Giddens; a Jewish holiday on the 14th of Adar that celebrates the fact that the Persians didn't slaughter the Jews; proper noun; Hebrew
1997; Rebecca Sealfon; a name well-suited to a person, place, or thing so named; noun; Greek
1998; Jody-Anne Maxwell; a painter who uses light and shade instead of color to create the illusion of volume; noun; Italian
1999; Nupur Lala; An excessive and often uncontrollable flow of words; noun; Greek through Latin
2004; Akshay Buddiga; similar to or resembling a fox; adjective; Greek
2006; Saryn Hooks; a certification of a food product that it is kosher; noun; Hebrew
2007; Kennyi Aouad; mechanically contrived plot structure and stereotyped or unrealistic characterization in drama; noun; from the name of a French playwright
2008; Sameer Mishra; a felt or sheepskin pad placed between a horse's back and the saddle to prevent chafing; noun; Hindi; Hint: This was not Sameer's winning word
2014; Ansun Sujoe; a part of a European newspaper or magazine designed to entertain the general reader: a feature section; noun; French