'Laodicean' and Other Spelling Bee Winning Words
Are you smarter than a fifth grader? 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar won the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling laodicean. Can you spell these winning words from previous years?
Definition: a course of action or maneuver
Winner: 12-year-old George Abraham Thampy of St. Louis, Mo. Thampy, who is home-schooled, donated the $10,000 prize to his parents. He also reportedly devised his own phonetic guide for tens of thousands of words; his mother, a non–native English speaker from India, quizzed him.
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