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• n  a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly

• Beyond the door, in a mulberry-and-cream office, Oveta Culp Hobby, the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was beginning the biggest spelldown of her .

• spelling bee
• spelling contest

News & Articles

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• Aron Wiener, sixth-grade Oak Hill student wins spelldown; 'arcus' is winning word
  WEST LONG BRANCH — Back and forth they went, round after round on the final night of the 30th annual Spelldown. The words kept getting tougher, more obscure: 'bobbejaan,' 'balalaika,' and 'nenuphar.'
  March 19, 2014 - Ocean County Observer
• Thinking caps on: Annual Spelldown kicks off at Monmouth University
  Students from around Monmouth and Ocean counties on Monday night took part in the first day of this year's Spelldown, held at Monmouth University in West Long Branch.
  March 18, 2014 - Asbury Park Press