Winning words 2015: scherenschnitte + nunatak
Who won: Gokul Venkatachalam, a 14-year-old from Missouri, and Vanya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old from Kansas, tied for first place after exhausting the entire list of words
How to say them: “shay-ren-shnit-tuh” + “nuhn–uh-tak”
What they mean: the artistic technique of cutting paper to form a symmetrical design; a peak of rock above an icy or snowy surface