VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Can you spell croquignole? An eighth grader from Visalia can, and helium utilized the endowment to beforehand his mode to the last circular of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
On Thursday, 14-year-old Sarvadnya Kadam finished the nationalist title successful 2nd place, making his mode done implicit a twelve puzzling definitions and spellings.
After a barrage of victories spelling and defining words specified arsenic disulfoton, dyslogistic and ordovician, successful the last round, helium made an error, adding a soundless H successful beforehand of Uaupés (pronounced wou-pes), a stream successful Colombia and Brazil.
This was Sarvadnya's 3rd clip astatine the nationalist spelling bee. To trial if you tin spell arsenic good arsenic Sarvadnya, click here.
Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old, 7th grader from Allen, Texas, came retired arsenic this year's nationalist spelling bee champ. His winning connection was Éclaircissement, which means "the clearing up of thing obscure."