Ishaan Akula, speller 34, misspelled kakapo, a New Zealand parrot with soft green and brown barred plumage that has well-developed wings but little power of flight, lives in burrows in the ground and has nocturnal habits.
Ishaan is out.
So is Z'Qi Chapman, speller 35, who misspelled eristic, which means characterized by disputatious often subtle and specious reasoning (as in argument).
