Atlanta Open Spelling Bee, 2001, Round 2

2001
Round 2
15 Words
Audio only: the ideal.

**First, print this page.**

**Then**, this page now before you on desk and monitor both,
**Click** on your monitor, in the left column, every word's sequence number:
This plays the word pronounced out loud. Repeat as many times as you like.
Then **Spell** the word in the far-right column of your printout.

Scores are cumulative. Give yourself a point for each correct spelling.

I can't play audio. Take me to the phonetic spellings.
Theoretically, this gives you no advantage, since the ideal is that anyone could write down the exact phonetic spelling, upon hearing the word pronounced. In reality, seeing the phonetic spelling gives you an edge. Try to avoid the phonetics and stick to the audio.
pronunciation	definition	spelling
1	A child in a rich, important family.
2	An unrhymed Japanese three-line, seventeen-syllable poem that refers in some way to a season.
3	Sheer stiffened fabric used to make tutus.
4	A chemical secreted by an animal to attract the opposite sex. A philter produced by one’s own body.
5	An interjection used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
6	To recover from sickness, return to health, gather strength, recuperate.
7	Shafts, tubes, or pipes for conveying smoke up a chimney.
8	A card game using two decks of cards with the two through the eight removed from both. Also, the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds together.
9	The Japanese art of paper folding. An origami representation—such as a flower or bird.
10	A species of Central American bird, the tail of the male of which is long, green, and beautiful beyond belief. The main unit of Guatemalan currency.
11	The liver of specially fattened geese, served as a delicacy in the form of a pâté.
12	A coating of frost on cold objects, or, as in the Divine Comedy, a field, mistaken for snow by the shepherd whose sheep are at the point of starvation. But when he looks out again he sees green pasture—and out the sheep go.
13	The tide with the lowest high-water level, occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
14	One of the twelve war-maidens who hover on horseback over battlefields and select slain warriors to conduct to Valhalla.
15	An Italian dessert with liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake.