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

aptitude

brandish

banish

influence


2. A small hill or mound.

detail

classify

knoll

kindle


3. Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

luminous

aplomb

topic

translucent


4. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

stamina

affect

pristine

zeal


5. Anything that assures a certain outcome.

habitation

ominous

guarantee

primarily


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This Week's Word In The News 

CATATONIC

DEFINITION:
Characterized by a marked lack of movement, activity, or expression. Having catatonia, a state of neurogenic motor immobility, and behavioral abnormality manifested by stupor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Potentially more upsetting to Palin and her supporters is the way the film depicts the candidate's outbursts and periods of nonresponsiveness that lead aides to describe her as "catatonic" and possibly mentally unstable.
Anchorage Daily News, 02/27/2012