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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. To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion
Random
Virtuoso
Boycott
Accentuate
2. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
Guerrilla
Protagonist
Voracious
Exult
3. A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.
Nebula
Bamboozle
Participle
Bizarre
4. Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
5. The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
Phloem
Technique
Quandary
Inference