V-O-C-A-B-U-L-A-R-Y: 🔤 Accomplished spellers can be bounced from the Scripps National Spelling Bee without ever misspelling a word.
The way Navneeth sees it, the SAT-style vocabulary questions are here to stay, and there's no excuse for spellers not to be prepared.
Now, vocabulary rounds are sprinkled through the onstage competition, and if a speller gets one multiple-choice question wrong, they're out. Yet Navneeth still observes spellers treating vocabulary as an afterthought in their preparation. His students have been working on it for a full year, and he also wrote a book, “Defining Success,” intended to help spellers prepare for the vocabulary portion.
“The bee went so deep off-list, there were several words that Vikram had to actually anticipate what the word might be based on the language or the definition,” said his mother, Sandhya Ayyar. “After these several rounds, he reached a point where, ‘I don’t know what's the word or what I'm supposed to spell here.'”
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