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Are you a Spelling Star?

The 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee is underway. Find out if you're champion material by choosing the correct spelling of these words that knocked out finalists in the recent past few years.

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[na-thon-ik]
adjective (from Latin) in a self-seeking, servile and flattering manner

  • gnathonik
  • gnathonic
  • nathonic
  • nathoneck

[mee-see-nuh s or mahy-see-nuh s]
noun (from Latin) a generous patron of literature or the arts

  • maiseenas
  • maecenas
  • meacinas
  • mycinas

[proh-soh-puh-pee-uh]
noun (from Greek) a figure of speech in which an absent person is represented as speaking or a dead person as alive and present

  • prosopopoieia
  • prosopopia
  • prosopopaiea
  • prosopopeia

[shver-muh-rahy]
noun (from German) excessive unbridled enthusiasm or attachment

  • schvermarahy
  • schwermarahy
  • schwarmerei
  • schvermerai

[kuh-rahy-zuh]
noun (from Late Latin, Greek) an acute inflammatory contagious disease involving the upper respiratory tract

  • coryza
  • corahyza
  • coryzha
  • coryzah

[men-hir]
noun (from French) a single upright rough monolith usually of prehistoric origin

  • menhyre
  • menoi
  • menir
  • menhir

[velt-shmerts]
noun (from German) mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state

  • weltschmerz
  • weltschmertz
  • wveltshmurz
  • weltschmurz

[rosh-ee-uh n, rosh-uh n]
adjective (from name of a celebrated Roman actor) of, relating to, or involving acting.

  • Roshian
  • Rusheean
  • Roscian
  • Rosciun

[ri-di-dohm]
noun (from New Latin, Greek) the part of the bark external to the last formed periderm in a tree

  • ritydome
  • rhytidome
  • ritidum
  • rhythitum

[saw-rahy-teez, soh- rahy-teez]
noun (from Latin, Greek) a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.

  • sorites
  • soriatees
  • soriatis
  • soratiz
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