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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. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Ultraviolet
Bamboozle
Dialogue
Random


2. Being without or almost without hope

Metaphor
Technique
Despondent
Marsupial


3. The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Tundra
Ellipse
Strategy
Quarantine


4. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Quarantine
Deign
Zoology
Embargo


5. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Tempo
Decorum
Salmonella
Tumult


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

TUMULTUOUS

DEFINITION:
Noisy and disorderly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That whole process was a little bit tumultuous as it unfolded day to day. But the application itself and some of the proposals were truly something that would be very progressive.
NJ.com, 08/30/2010