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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. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

recuperate

apprehensive

value

jargon


2. To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

jargon

hasten

scarcity

quell


3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

momentum

dismal

deft

analogy


4. A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

document

minority

element

guarantee


5. Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries

brackish

method

influence

impact


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This Week's Word In The News 

SEDENTARY

DEFINITION:
Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report
Dayton Daily News, 05/21/2012