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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. Timid, fearful, overly cautious

meticulous

compose

luminous

interpret


2. More than half (50%) of some group

meander

majority

swarm

concoction


3. Self-confidence; poise; composure.

brackish

aplomb

vulnerable

ominous


4. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

dispel

source

waft

swagger


5. To make stable or firm; to confirm.

influence

ensure

establish

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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