Atlanta Open Spelling Bee, 2001, Round 1

2001
Round 1
20 Words
Audio only: the ideal.

**First, print this page.**

**Then**, this page now before you on desk and monitor both,
**Click** on your monitor, in the left column, every word's sequence number:
This plays the word pronounced out loud. Repeat as many times as you like.
Then **Spell** the word in the far-right column of your printout.

Scores are cumulative. Give yourself a point for each correct spelling.

I can't play audio. Take me to the phonetic spellings.
Theoretically, this gives you no advantage, since the ideal is that anyone could write down the exact phonetic spelling, upon hearing the word pronounced. In reality, seeing the phonetic spelling gives you an edge. Try to avoid the phonetics and stick to the audio.
pronunciation	definition	spelling
1.: The topical word	The study of flags.
2	A prolonged dispute marked by violent conflicts, especially between two families.
3	Danger. Exposure to peril.
4	One remaining alive after another's death, or after some disaster.
5	The tiny leaves of a pungent herb used in cooking for flavor.
6	An evergreen tree of Europe, Asia, and Africa.This tree's hard fragrant wood.
7	Reluctantly accept a thing to be true.
8	The ceremonial meal eaten on either of the first two nights of Passover commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.
9	Word number nine means a love potion.
10	Like the people living in one of the regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Surrounded or nearly surrounded by land.
11	A water diviner. One skilled in finding underground water by using as a divining rod a forked stick of some fruit-bearing wood, generally witch hazel.
12	A Spanish dish of simmered seafood, chicken, rice, vegetables, with costly saffron the essential flavoring agent.
13	The Abominable Snowman of the Himalyas.
14	People with Internet and computer technology expertise. The computer-literate class.
15	The masses. The common people.
16	The right to vote.
17	A very timid man.
18	A small Hawaiian guitar with four strings, strummed and plucked to accompany song and dance.
19	Times long past. The good old days.
20	Like the end of the 19th century--fashionably despairing, extremely aesthetic, escapist, advanced, modern.