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Both representatives from Georgia advanced to the semi-finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC on May 27.
Sarv Dharavane from Peachtree Middle School in Dunwoody, the state’s winner, correctly spelled “vivificate,” to animate or revive, and seventh grader Sreeya Lakkimsetti, from Stallings Middle School in Columbia County, correctly spelled “jurimetrician,” the application of quantitative methods, probability, and statistics to the study of law.
In the first two rounds, Dharavane correctly spelled “heiau,” which is a Hawaiian sacred place, then defined “veracity” as “the quality of conforming to facts, truthfulness, or habitual honesty.”…