Scripps National Spelling Bee: Live Updates 3:48 p.m.: Think you've got what it takes? Take the Scripps spelling sample test here. 3:45 p.m.: Has anyone made a study of who does better in competition, the kids who ask for word origins or those who finger spell? 3:41 p.m.: Ronan Howlett, of Vermont, misspells "parapsychical" incorrectly. 32 spellers remain. 3:17 p.m.: Favorite Arvind Mahankali, 13, nails intravasation. Lives to spell another day. 3:15 p.m.: Every winning word from 1925′s gladiolus to 2012′s guetapens, can be found here. 3:08 p.m.: Darren Rovell, an ABC News and ESPN correspondent, who has correctly picked the last four winners, puts his money on favorites Arvind Mahankali and Grace Remmer, both previous finalists. 3:00 p.m.: Matthew Donohue eats it harder than a "diplodocus," a large herbivorous dinosaur. And then there were 36. Want to know every word spelled this year? Check out the bee's official twitter feed 2:51 p.m.: Spelling Bee Fact: This is the fifth appearance for two spellers, Rachael Cundy and Emily Keaton. Five other kids have been to bee four times, including favorite Arvind Mahankali. If you think this year's competition is fierce, check out last year's winning word. 2:45 p.m.: Mary Skirvin bombs on "laureation." 2:43 p.m.: Down goes Joseph Kirkpatrick . Puts an "e" in ignimbrite. 38 remaining. 2:10 p.m.: The semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee kick off with 40 contestants remaining. ABC News will be covering the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee culminating in tonight's finals at 8 p.m. Spellers come from from all 50 states and eight foreign countries, and range in age from 8 to 14. Some 281 students are competing in this year's bee held in Washington, D.C. Fifty-two percent of the spellers are boys and 48 percent are girls. A new rule was added to this year's bee, in which contestants take a vocabulary test in the early rounds.