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5 Elementary Words

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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. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

effect

cunning

conclude

deft


2. To influence or alter.

repugnant

momentum

affect

except


3. Existing or occurring at the moment.

analyze

evidence

current

illuminate


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

attentive

uncanny

serenity

contortion


5. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

contortion

area

acquire

source


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This Week's Word In The News 

COUNTERVAILING

DEFINITION:
Acting against with equal force. Exerting force against an opposing and often bad or harmful force or influence.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The announcement came after the Government Accountability Board faced countervailing pressures from those who urged that the petitions be made readily available and from those who raised concerns about the safety of domestic abuse victims who wanted to keep their addresses confidential.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 02/06/2012