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Tarzana Student Makes it to Third Round of Scripps Spelling Bee
The student did well, spelling such words as "exequies" correctly, but did not make it to the semifinals.

A student from the in Tarzana correctly spelled his words in today's second and third rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Md., but was eliminated from the competition.
Nickan Fayyazi, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Portola Highly Gifted Magnet Center in Tarzana, spelled firth, a narrow inlet or arm of the sea. He then correctly spelled exequies, meaning funeral ceremonies.
The first round—a 50-word computer spelling test, with 25 words counting toward the scores—was held Tuesday, with each correct answer worth one point. The test scores were combined with the second- and third-round results to determine the 50 participants in Thursday's semifinals, but Fayyazi was not included on the list.
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Nickan said his best subject is math, his favorite sport is skiing, but he also enjoys snowboarding and tennis, speaks French and Farsi, aspires to be an engineer and has a cat named Bijou.
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