Contest Winners
The winning pseudowords from our Root Challenge Contest 2021 that ended on November 10, 2021.
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orthoanthrophile
A person who has an eerie fondness of fixing or diagnosing people to such an extent that the person may come off as overbearing or controlling.
Bethany can come off as an orthoanthrophile because she keeps trying to manage Kyle's social problems.
Teacher: Stephen Holland
Pope John Paul II High School -
extranovacity
Outside the characteristics of being new; something that is old but will always stay the same.
The farmer’s old farmhouse has a certain extranovacity about it. Even though it is hundreds of years old, it looks just like how it was when it was built.
Teacher: Jessica Vance
Boulder Country Day School -
vacterrism
The belief in a hollow Earth.
Vacterrism dates all the way back to 1692 when people believed beings lived inside the core of the planet.
Teacher: Molly Esposito
Delaware Valley Regional High School -
circumsentor
A noun that means “someone who feels everything around them.” a person with great empathy who tends to feel their emotions and other people's strongly.
Although many admire Tracy's empathy, she is a big circumsentor, so she takes on the burden of everyone else's feelings, which can be exhausting.
Teacher: Shannon Donaldson
Xavier College Preparatory -
metaversaphilia
Possessing fondness to turning or switching sides after one sees the outcome of things.
His metaversaphilia kicked in after the team he picked lost the football game last night.
Teacher: Heather Elouej
Shorecrest Preparatory School
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canfortimpet
Strong attack dog.
Last night, my canfortimpet protected me from robbers.
Teacher: Tessa Calhoun
Brookstone School -
bonagonmorphage
The process of struggling to change for the better/become good.
In Avatar the Last Airbender, Zuko engaged in bonagonmorphage after realizing his Uncle had been right all along.
Teacher: Ari Stern
Berman Hebrew Academy -
sesociomorphise
When society must enforce social distancing due to global pandemic.
After COVID-19 hit, we had to sesociomorphise into the wacky, uncomfortable world of social distancing.
Teacher: Pamela Peters
Independence Junior High School -
fortess
A strong, capable woman.
My mother is a fortess who I look up to everyday, as she is resilient, hard-working, and brave.
Teacher: Liz Restivo
Donna Klein Jewish Academy -
alterphonable
The ability to change one's voice or dialect.
After spending time in Germany, Mary's voice became alterphonable and mimicked the high German accent.
Teacher: Tami Thurston
Mariners Christian School -
hyperphonosis
A disease where your voice randomly reaches extremely high or low pitches.
Ever since I turned 18, I realized that I might have hyperphonosis, because whenever I try to speak, my voice shoots up a few ranges I normally can’t even reach, or sometimes, my voice lowers down a hundred steps.
Teacher: Kim Halstead
D. Russell Parks Junior High School -
exphonovate
To make the quality of a sound new.
The keen-eared director of the new animated film chose Manfred's voice for a large portion of characters, due to his astounding ability to exphonovate.
Teacher: Jacob Rees
Lone Peak High School -
kineterrant
Possessing the ability to move earth at their own will.
In the popular movie Avatar, various people called earthbenders possess the kineterrant ability to move rocks and dirt at their own behest.
Teacher: John Damaso
Brophy College Preparatory -
postoblivanthrophonic
The characteristic of being within a period in time after human voice and verbal sound has been forgotten.
In the year 5027, robots live in a postoblivanthrophonic society, only knowing of a time where communication is entirely based in morse code.
Teacher: Stacey Kasper
Valley Middle School -
telesentment
The feeling of being involved in something without ever engaging with it.
The girl felt telesentment toward her sister's friends after overhearing many conversations they had, though she had never spoken to them.
Teacher: Patrick Green
Randolph School
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