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Lake City 5th-Grader Wins NI Bee

Rebekah Pinkerton, a home-schooled fifth grader from Coeur d’Alene, spelled the previously misspelled word “inselberg” and followed it up with the correct spelling of “bezoar” Saturday to out-spell 44 North Idaho fourth through eighth graders to be crowned the champion in the eighth annual North Idaho College Regional Spelling Bee/News Bonners Ferry. She’ll be traveling on an all-expenses paid trip to the preliminary round of the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee June 1-2 in National Harbor, Maryland/ News Bonners Ferry . More here.

Question: Without looking, can you define either ‘inselberg’ or ‘bezoar’?

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