Root Word Study - Verein

I have not posted for a few weeks, but once I get back on my regular computer, I will post the rest of the words used in past National Spelling Bees.

For now I am going to do a root word study on verein. This word caught my attention when I saw a word in one of the German songs I sang (Serenade (Ständchen) Op. 135: Zögernd Leise by Schubert). vereinter (This is not a word in Webster's Third, but verein is). When you translate it into English, it means combined. According to Webster, verein means a usual social or political organization or association. 

There was a word at the National Spelling Bee that had this certain root: turnverein: an athletic club. In this case verein means club, but club has a similar meaning to organization and association.

Good luck, spellers, and I hope you are studying very diligently!

Words from Previous National Spelling Bees (2005-2008)

Words from Past Years

I will be posting several words starting from 2005, because that was the first year they stopped updating the Scripps Consolidated Word List.

2005
ornithorhynchous
pompier
Roscian
trouvaille
priscilla
xenocentric
coiffure
dissilient
daguerreotypes 
sphygmomanometer
filiciform
heterocoelous
cancrizans




2006
echinulate
probouleutic
cabotinage
kalema
panchreston
tychopotamic
campanile
saxifragous
oligophagous
criollo
involucre
cholinesterase
oxyblepsia
lansquenet
gisarme
tagliatelle
onager
arrondissement (This word was just used last night)
paronychia
rapprochement
tasajillo
incalescent
seicento
seicento
aeoline
rasceta
malentendu
sapajou
rya
apotropaic
feretory
mettwurst
durbar
olibanum
khedive
eremacausis
theremin
joual
Pierian
nullipara
sprachgeful
Weltschmerz
icteritious
totipalmate


2007
flebile
girolle
beccafico
zacate
aniseikonia
exsiccate
biwa
apozem
fauchard
cannetille
helzel
erinaceous
furfuraceous
epaulement
illeist
hilum
lambdacisms
mneme
hirudiniasis
lomilomi
oberek
meralgia
schuhplattler 
myoclonous
peirastic
onychomycosis
pschent
polyphydont
reseau
quipu
punaise (I remember this one specifically. The speller said that he would like to spell bedbug, because that is the meaning of the word)
Bewusstseinslage 
saimin 
yosenabe


2008
aporetic
piacular
emollience
amole
scission
podotheca
morceau
stollen
xylary
luftmensch
trochophore
duende
pullus
topepo
puissant
bricolage
solfatara
chevee
amylolysis
mcleod
tombolo
eremophyte
benzophenome
ansu
xerarch
Krummholz
sporangiophore
advocaat
ptarmic
oleocellosis
secernent
pourboire
duroc
tiqueur
miliary
hyssop
galbulus
ophthalmoplegia
redoppe
pyrrhotism
canicular
torii
trophallactic
bulbul
allotriophagy
picry
anticum
galeate
oceanodromous
bowdlerize
shamateurism
tralatitious
aurelian
cryptarithim
hemeralopia
empyrean
tautological
Huguenot
digerati
caduceus
propylaeum
escabeche
fumagillin
ziarat
bogatyr
lemel
parfleche
huapango (I'll admit that this is part of my password that I use for log ins plus a lot of numbers. I just do not use it for this blog or my emails)
ecrase 
posaune
thymele
oxylophytic
prosopopoeia
aptyalism
opificer
hyphaeresis
Kulturkampf
taleggio
monogoneutic
brankursine
Rorschach
numnah
boulangere
ranunculaceous


I will post 2009-2012 in another post!

Media Tour/Banquet/Summer Activities/International Bee

Snigdha Nandipati is on her media tour today after such an amazing win last night! If you missed out, her winning word was guetapens (getuh-pahn - light on the n) It is an ambush, snare, or trap, and it is from French. Today is also the banquet to honor the championship finalists, delicious food, and have fun! Spellers need to have fun, too, you know!


After this Bee, there is one more Bee to go: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Ivins, Utah (nearby St. George). There is a lot of audience participation from what I have heard, including a spelling bee for several audience members. Some of the words they use in the musical are pretty similar to the ones at the National Spelling Bee, so you might want to bring a pencil and a notebook. I really am excited to watch this show, because it will mix some of my favorite activities: the spelling bee and musical theater.

I will continue writing my spelling bee book series, and I hope to be finished with Book 7 by the end of the summer.

With summer classes, I will be taking Computer Technology and Financial Literacy. I do not want to graduate too early, but I want to graduate from high school with my associate's degree. During my junior year, I will be transferring to an early college high school.

The week after school gets out (June 8), I will be headed to Colorado for a church youth group camp, and I hope to have so much fun there!

My Bible Bee studies will commence once I get my materials. This will be my third year doing it, and I hope to have more time this summer, so I can hopefully make it to nationals! I also have been studying ahead with techniques and memorizing certain passages that may be in the Bee this year. The work is harder than the spelling bee, because in the Bible Bee, you either know it or you do not. In the spelling bee, if you get a word that you do not know, you could figure it out by using what you know.

Filmography is one of my favorite hobbies ever! This year I hope to get many pictures and videos at camp, so I can make actual videos. I am also planning to film some of the short plays my friends and I wrote.

The most exciting activity I am doing this summer is going back to Washington, D.C. I have been there once already, but I cannot wait to see all the sites again and others I have not seen. Perhaps we may visit the Gaylord National Hotel!

I do not know what else I will be doing this summer, but I will be able to do more spelling bee club planning.


Scripps is planning to start an international spelling bee, and it may be able to start in 2013. Right now, many of you know that spellers from different countries come from all over the world to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. If the international program is formally announced, the spellers will no longer compete at the national bee, but they will send the top three spellers from each country for the international competition.

There have been many international competitions, including the Olympics, World Choir Games, International Science and Engineering Fair, International Sustainable World (Engineering, Energy, and Environment) Project Olympiad, and many more. Now it is time for an actual international spelling bee. If they include high school students in it, I should start studying for the Bee again.

Great job to everyone, and good luck to those competing next year.