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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

Heritage
Cower
Aspire
Toxin


2. Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Marsupial
Renaissance
Mosaic
Malignant


3. To proclaim publicly

Divulge
Ellipse
Exult
Vaccine


4. Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Accentuate
Outrageous
Jovial
Tariff


5. A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Tariff
Stereotype
Unanimous
Typhoon


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

ABOMINATION

DEFINITION:
A cause of abhorrence or disgust.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In just three months, Arizona's controversial new immigration law has shaken the national political scene, viewed either as a civil-rights abomination or the symbol of a state stepping up to do a difficult job that the U.S. government refuses to do.
azcentral.com, 07/25/2010