2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated ... - Project Read
2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee Consolidated ... - Project Read
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<strong>2004</strong> <strong>Scripps</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Spelling</strong> <strong>Bee</strong> <strong>Consolidated</strong> Word List: Words Appearing Infrequently<br />
bundle<br />
n<br />
/ SbEndFl /<br />
D > E<br />
[Note: The definition provided is<br />
not the one most commonly<br />
associated with this word.] a<br />
shipping unit of about 125 pounds<br />
that is used in papermaking.<br />
Rick bargained to reduce the<br />
shipping rate by 25 cents per<br />
bundle.<br />
bungee<br />
Bunraku<br />
n<br />
/ bUnSrB(T)kV /<br />
Jpn<br />
Japanese puppet theater featuring<br />
large costumed wooden puppets,<br />
onstage puppeteers, and a chanter<br />
who speaks all the lines.<br />
Bunraku features four-foot-high<br />
dolls adroitly manipulated by<br />
black-clad puppeteers in full view<br />
of the audience.<br />
bunt<br />
v<br />
/ SbEnt /<br />
Gmc > F > E<br />
block or push (the ball) in a game<br />
of baseball within the infield by<br />
meeting it with a loosely held bat<br />
and no swing.<br />
The team coach told Jackson to<br />
bunt the next pitch.<br />
buoyage<br />
buoyance<br />
burbark<br />
burble<br />
v<br />
/ SbErbEl /<br />
imit E<br />
become turbulent.<br />
In the wind-tunnel tests, Hans<br />
could see the air burble off the left<br />
wing.<br />
burgee<br />
burmite<br />
burning<br />
adj<br />
/ SbErniN /<br />
E<br />
on fire.<br />
Al backed his chair away from the<br />
heat of the burning campfire.<br />
burnisher<br />
burst<br />
burtoning<br />
burweed<br />
bury<br />
bushels<br />
n pl<br />
/ SbUshElz /<br />
E<br />
units of dry capacity used in the<br />
United States, each equal to<br />
2,150.42 cubic inches.<br />
By his reckoning, Herman had<br />
hauled over 10,000 bushels of<br />
leaves by the end of the fall.<br />
buskined<br />
bustard<br />
buttonboard<br />
bygones<br />
byssoid<br />
bystander<br />
byway<br />
byzantinism<br />
cabbage<br />
cabdriver<br />
cabin<br />
cablese<br />
caboodle<br />
cacholong<br />
caciquism<br />
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cack<br />
n<br />
/ Skak /<br />
unknown<br />
a baby’s heelless shoe with a soft<br />
leather sole.<br />
The shoe clerk recommended a size<br />
3 cack for Amanda’s three-month<br />
old boy.<br />
cadastral<br />
caddisworm<br />
cadences<br />
n pl<br />
/ SkCdFn(t)sDz /<br />
L > It > E<br />
the modulated and rhythmic<br />
recurrences of any sound,<br />
especially the sounds of nature.<br />
Mary whispered in Jean’s ear so<br />
quietly that her words sounded<br />
merely like broken cadences of<br />
breathing.<br />
cadential<br />
cadmium<br />
caducicorn<br />
cafard<br />
caftan<br />
cage<br />
cahier<br />
cairngorm<br />
calamander<br />
calamari<br />
calash<br />
n<br />
/ kESlash /<br />
Czech > G > F<br />
a large hood worn by women in the<br />
18th century.<br />
Priscilla’s calash was made of<br />
green silk and was supported by<br />
whalebone hoops.<br />
calcaneal<br />
calciferous
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