SoCal Students Get Past ‘Doxycycline’ and ‘Durbar’ to Advance in Spelling Bee

Published on May 29, 2024

The Los Angeles and Orange County contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee both advanced to the quarterfinals May 28 by correctly spelling two words and answering a vocabulary question. Oliver Halkett, a sixth-grader who attends The Mirman School in Brentwood, correctly spelled “desiccate,” a verb meaning to dry up, and chose the correct answer to the vocabulary question “Acerbity is?” selecting “a manner that is harsh, biting or irritated.” In the third round, Oliver correctly spelled “doxycycline,” a broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic used orally to treat various bacterial infections. Katelyn Nguyen, a seventh-grader at Helen Stacey Middle School in Huntington Beach, correctly spelled “ubi sunt,” the Latin phrase meaning “of or relating to a type of poetry reflecting on transience and mortality,” and correctly answered the vocabulary question “A schooner is a type of?’ by selecting boat....

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