#23 adjudicate

- adjudicate - verb - to serve as a judge or arbiter in a competition
- also adjudicator - noun

- from C18 Latin - judicare - to act as judge

An adjudicator's comments of a science poetry competition: 'The writers of free verse and acrostic poems need to work on creating an image--or picture--with their writing.'

I have distinct memories as a child of music adjudication during music festivals.

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