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Words in the News

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. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Nocturnal
Boycott
Impertinent
Bizarre


2. An embankment built to prevent flooding

Bizarre
Vertebrate
Levee
Virtuoso


3. A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Light-Year
Vacillate
Silhouette
Stereotype


4. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Formidable
Vaccine
Toxin
Plateau


5. The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Exult
Labyrinth
Tariff
Deduction


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com, 08/30/2010