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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. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. To follow a winding course
3. A process of compensation for losses.
4. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
5. Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
'Muckrakers' serial story
Political corruption, corporate greed, sickness and death from tainted foods -- today's headlines may shock us, but in fact they echo the scandalous exposes of the past century. Then, as now, it was the news media who frequently brought the truth to light. Using the constitutional freedom of the press, journalists investigated, exposed, and urged reform. They gave voice to the concerns of citizens and shed light on the nation's faults. Join us in learning about these early "Muckrakers."
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