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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 cringe in fear

Exponent
Tempo
Tumult
Cower


2. The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Recede
Nocturnal
Ozone
Protagonist


3. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Typhoon
Voracious
Hypocrisy
Eclectic


4. A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Labyrinth
Toxin
Rainforest
Light-Year


5. To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Fallacy
Exult
Impertinent
Vacillate


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

FIASCO

DEFINITION:
A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010