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5 Elementary Words

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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. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

concoction

ensure

materialize

muster


2. A particular geographic region.

establish

engross

area

unsightly


3. To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

accomplish

banish

symbolism

affect


4. A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

counter

furtive

evidence

classify


5. Bizarre, strange

debris

outlandish

barricade

knoll


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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