Anamika Veeramani barely edged out the competition to win her second consecutive Plain Dealer Cuyahoga County Scripps Spelling Bee Saturday.
The 13-year-old dueled it out with Anshika Niraj in the final tense moments of the bee as both spelled a host of words, including “pugilist,” “meniscus,” “surreptitious,” “Graustark,” and “strabismus.”
In the end, Veeramani clinched the victory with the correct spelling of “pyrethrum” — a word with Greek and Latin roots that means “any of various chrysanthemums with finely divided and often aromatic leaves.”
Easy, right?
Veeramani, an eighth-grader from Incarnate Word Academy in Parma Heights, had been studying since September by reading dictionaries and examining the list from the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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