And Sai Lakkimsetti, speller 1, makes quick work of "replica," a copy of an original work of art.
The sentence: At the sleepover, Bethany shared her detailed theory that Zooey Deschanel doesn’t actually exist, and is secretly just a Katy Perry replica.
It elicited chuckles from the crowd.
The Alabama fourth grader is in his second Bee. Last year, he tied for 42nd place.
The next two spellers are out. Daniel Wu, speller 2 and an Arizona eighth grader, misspelled "occlude," to shut or stop up so as to prevent the passage of something : close, obstruct. It's his second Bee.
And speller 3, Soham Kulkarni, a California sixth grader, misspelled "cloying," having an excess of a quality (as sweetness or sentimentality) to the point of arousing distaste or disgust.
The Round 2 words all came from a word list, but these words are just from the dictionary. It makes for more misspellings than in the earlier round.