Eclat! or how to spend a Friday night in May

It's that time of year again! The National Spelling Bee has been on for three days now. Tonight is the finale. I can hardly wait. These kids are amazing and every year as I watch the show I get goosebumps watching them spell. These kids are so young! Tonight's finalists are:

Samia Nawaz
Tia Thomas
Austin Pineda, Perris
Justin Song
Kyle Mou
Rose Sloan
Sameer Mishra
Kavya Shivashanker
Sidarth Chand
Catherine Cojocaru
Scott Remer
Jahnavi Iyer

One of them is from the school district one over from us. Perris, California. Probably one of the poorest districts in the state. And he's out in the first round (8) tonight.

bowdlerize
shamateurism
tralatitious
aurelian

The biggest probelm with tonight's finale is the commercials. Aaack. Four words and a commercial This is crazy. Unless of course, all the monies derived from the commercials were going to the school that the kids attend. Or at least paid for the trips to get them to the bee. That would be a great thing for some corporations to do, you know Hershey's?; Target?; Clairol?; Nintendo?; ABC?; AT&T?; Purina?; Columbia Pictures?; TicTacs?; oh here's a big one a drug company! Reclast?; Macy's? Or even a number of those celebrities (Martha, Carlos, Mariah, Donald...; MacDonalds?; Will Farrel?; The guy from the office?; Honda?; Cheerios?; Starbucks?; Payless Shoes?; Olive Garden?; Disney?; KABC-LA?; Wells Fargo?; Jack-in-the-Box?; Sprint?; Petsmart?; Visa?; KFC?; Dr. Scholl's?; Kohl's?; Walmart?; Pampers (KimberlyClark?; Samsung?; Oscal?; Ritz?; Saturn?; Crest?; GMC?; KMart?; Coppertone?; Philadelphia Cream Cheese?; Cottonelle?; Bank of America?; Chrysler?; Degree?; Chase?; Behr Paint?; Home Depot?; Advair?; Yoplait?; Aleve - Bayer?; Applebee's?; Circut City?; Chili's?; Mervyn's?; Mastercard?; Red Lobster?; Scott's?; Dove Chocolate?; Any of you want to help these families get to DC next year?

Cryptarithm
hemeralopia
basenji
empyrean

Yep every four words!

tautological
Huguenot
digerati
caduceus
monogoneutic
brankursine
rorschach
trochiline
alcarraza
numnah (numbnut? oh numnah! that's a relief!, says Sameer)

epideictic
ommateal
boulangere
ranunculaceous
Nietzschean
escabeche
propylaeum
satyagraha
lapies
fumagillin
chorion
martellato
ziarat
bogatyr
lemel
parfleche
huapango
rhyton
sheitel
nacarat
ecrase
posaune
thymele

last round:
oxylophytic
sinicize
aptyalism
opificer
hyphaeresis
kulturkampf
taleggio
introuvable
esclandre
prosopopoeia
guerdon (winning word!)

Congratulations Sameer! Good luck in medical school!

Here you can test your spelling prowess.