JUST OLD FAMILIAR WORDS, LIKE XANTHOSIS AND CAPPELLETTI JUSTIN TYLER CARROLL.(MAIN)

, 14, an Arkansas eighth-grader whose hobbies include solving difficult word puzzles, correctly spelled xanthosis Thursday to win the 68th annual national spelling bee in Washington.

Grabbing the microphone with both hands, he spelled the winning word which means a discoloration of the skin without pausing.

``I tried to be optimistic throughout that I would get words I knew,'' said Justin, who lives in Wynne, Ark., but represented Memphis in the contest. He said he had studied xanthosis and that he was ``familiar with the words that I got today.''

Marjory Lavery, a 13-year-old home-schooler from Copley, Ohio, was runner-up. She was eliminated …