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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. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

outlandish

muster

egregious

restitution


2. Connection or association; the condition of being related.

relationship

guarantee

influence

barricade


3. To make smaller.

similar

diminish

jargon

deft


4. A state of confused and noisy disturbance

attentive

pristine

commotion

emerge


5. Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way

compose

dismal

stamina

uncanny


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This Week's Word In The News 

INITIATE

DEFINITION:
To set going by taking the first step; begin.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Troopers initiated a pursuit of the vehicle at the rest area on Interstate 71 just north of the Ohio 123 exit east of Lebanon, troopers said.
The Dayton Daily News, 05/20/2013