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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. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Yacht
Plateau
Laconic
Mosaic


2. A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Mosaic
Gargoyle
Tranquility
Silhouette


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

Nebula
Marsupial
Suffrage
Lichen


4. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Eclectic
Quarantine
Virtuoso
Alliteration


5. To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Exponent
Exult
Typhoon
Formidable


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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