Spelling Bee 2025

Question 1

Activist:
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 1

• Noun
• a person who works to achieve political or social change, especially as a member of an organization with particular aims.
• Protester, campaigner.
• Antagonist, bystander

Question 2

Advocate
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 2

• Verb
• to support something publicly.
• Recommend, defend, support.
• Criticize, oppose.

Question 3

Bewildered
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 3

• Adjective
• Puzzled or confused; perplexed.
• Stunned, disoriented.
• Certain, aware.

Question 4

Bucolic
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 4

• Adjective
• connected with the countryside or country life. Relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life
• Rural, countryside.
• Urban, city-like.

Question 5

Camaraderie
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 5

• Noun
• Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.
• Friendship, fellowship.
• Hate, distrust.

Question 6

Condemn
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 6

• Verb
• Expressing complete disapproval of; censuring. To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons.
• Blame, disapprove.
• Approve, praise, support.

Question 7

Contraption
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 7

• Noun
• A strange, complicated, or impractical device or machine.
• Device, gadget, machine.

Question 8

Decipher
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 8

• Verb
• Succeed in understanding, interpreting, or identifying (something).
• Decode, interpret.
• Misinterpret, conceal, encode.

Question 9

Desperate
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 9

• Adjective
• feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others.
• Distressed, frantic, hopeless.
• Confident, secure, hopeful.

Question 10

Detainee
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 10

• Noun
• A person held in custody, especially for political reasons or while awaiting trial.
• Prisoner, captive, inmate.

Question 11

Deterioration
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 11

• Noun
• The process of becoming progressively worse.
• Decay, degradation, worsening.
• Improvement, recovery, advancement.

Question 12

Elation
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 12

• Noun
• a feeling of great happiness and excitement.
• Joy, happiness, euphoria.
• Sadness, depression, misery.

Question 13

Entranced
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 13

• Adjective
• fill (someone) with wonder and delight, holding their entire attention. If you are entranced by someone or something
  that is very interesting or beautiful, you cannot stop watching him, her, or it.
• Captivated, mesmerized, fascinated.
• Uninterested, bored, unimpressed.

Question 14

Handkerchief
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 14

• Noun
• A square piece of cloth or paper (typically carried in one’s pocket) and intended for wiping one’s nose or face.
• Tissue, cloth, napkin.

Question 15

Hoss
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 15

• Noun
• A strong, powerful horse or person.
• Steed, stallion.
• Weakling, slacker, coward.

Question 16

Inextricably
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 16

• Adverb
• In a way that is impossible to be separated, released or escaped from.
• Indivisibly, inseparably, tightly.
• Separably, loosely, divisibly.

Question 17

Ingenuity
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 17

• Noun
• the ability to invent things or solve problems in clever new ways.
• Creativity, inventiveness, cleverness.
• Stupidity, unimaginativeness, incompetence.

Question 18

Introspective
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 18

• Adjective
• tending to think a lot about your own thoughts, feelings, etc
• Reflective, thoughtful, contemplative.
• Thoughtless, unaware, carefree.

Question 19

Manacle
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 19

• Noun
• one of two metal bands joined by a chain, used for fastening a prisoner’s ankles or wrists together.
• Handcuff, chain, restraint.

Question 20

Mortality
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 20

• Noun
• The state of being human and not living forever.
• Death, impermanence.
• Immortality, eternity.

Question 21

Mow
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 21

• Verb
• Cut down (grass or other growing things) with a machine or hand tool.
• Trim, cut, slash.
• Grow, cultivate, plant.

Question 22

Newfangled
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 22

• Adjective
• Different from what one is used to; objectionably new.
• Modern, latest, innovative.
• Old-fashioned, outdated, old-school.

Question 23

Myopic
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 23

• Adjective
• unable to see things clearly when they are far away. / Unable to see what the results of a particular action or decision
  will be; unable to think about anything outside your own situation/ Nearsighted; lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual
  insight.
• Shortsighted, narrow-minded, unaware.
• Open-minded, farsighted, far-seeing.

Question 24

Pitched
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 24

• Verb
• Moved suddenly and violently in a particular direction.
• Tossed, hurled, flung.
• Caught.

Question 24

Nudge - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 24

- Verb - Push (someone) gently with one's elbow in order to draw their attention to something /to push somebody/something gently or gradually in a particular direction. - Push, poke, shove. - Pull, drag.

Question 25

Predatory - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 25

- Adjective - living by killing and eating other animals. - It has no synonyms or antonyms

Question 26

Prescient - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 26

- Adjective - Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place (showing foresight). - Prophetic, predictive, foresighted. - Unaware, oblivious, unforeseeing.

Question 27

Quizzical - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 27

- Adjective - Expressing mild or amused puzzlement. - Curious, questioning, skeptical. - Certain, sure, clear.

Question 28

Radical - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 28

- Adjective - believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change. - Extreme, revolutionary, profound. - Moderate, conservative, traditional.

Question 29

Reincarnation - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 29

- Noun - The rebirth of a soul in a new body. - Rebirth, resurrection, reawakening. - Extinction, end, death.

Question 30

Sanctimonious - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 30

- Adjective - giving the impression that you feel you are better and more moral than other people. - Self-righteous, hypocritical, smug. - Humble, modest, sincere.

Question 31

Seamstress - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 31

- Noun - A woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing. - Sewer, dressmaker, tailor.

Question 32

Segregation - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 32

- Noun - the act or policy of separating people from different groups, for example people of different races, religions or sexes, and treating them in a different way. - Discrimination. - Equality.

Question 33

Sore - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 33

- Adjective - painful or aching. If a part of your body is sore, it is painful, and often red, especially because of infection or because a muscle has been used too much. - Sensitive, bruised, irritated. - Healed, healthy, painless.

Question 34

Symmetrical - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 34

- Adjective - Made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis. - Balanced, even, proportional. - Asymmetrical, uneven, irregular.

Question 35

Trembling - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 35

- Adjective - Shaking involuntarily, typically as a result of anxiety, fear, or excitement. - Shaking, quivering, shuddering. - Steady, calm, stable.

Question 36

Tress - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 36

- Noun - a section or curl of someone's long hair. - Lock, strand, curl.

Question 37

Unleash - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 37

- Verb - Released from restraint or control. - Release, liberate, unchain. - Restrain, control, contain.

Question 38

Zinnia - Part of speech - Definition - Synonyms and antonyms

Answer 38

- Noun - A garden plant of the daisy family with brightly colored flowers. - It has no synonyms or antonyms