National Spelling Bee: Could you spell these 10 winning business words?

10. Logorrhea

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As Patrizzia Fox-Beaudet, 10, of Cottonwood, Calif., left, balances her placard from it's string, Vaidya Govindarajan, 14, of Miami yawns at center, as fellow spellers compete during the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. At right is Shruti Amin, 14, of Murrieta, Calif.

Year: 1999

Champion: Nupur Lala (Tampa, Fla.)

Definition: (n.) excessive talkativeness

Used in a Business page sentence: Some decried Greg Smith’s New York Times-published resignation letter from Goldman Sachs as mere logorrhea, while others saw it as a much-needed wake up call for a company with an integrity problem.

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