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Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!

1. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

► reflection

► waver

► affect

► oppose

2. Hidden, secret

► recluse

► egregious

► contributions

► pertinent

3. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► contributions

► pertinent

► current

► analyze

4. A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

► swarm

► multitude

► adversary

► terse

5. In order of time from the earliest to the latest

► terse

► ominous

► chronological

► meticulous

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This Week's Word In The News 

SEDENTARY

DEFINITION:
Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report
►Dayton Daily News, 05/21/2012