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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. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

evidence

current

apprehensive

waver


2. A great amount or number, often of people.

concoction

multitude

influence

monotonous


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

monotonous

egregious

eavesdrop

muster


4. Anything that may be possible; a possibility

potential

boundary

impending

recuperate


5. To finish successfully

impending

recuperate

pertinent

accomplish


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This Week's Word In The News 

ASSESSMENT

DEFINITION:
The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"Using computer models ... for estimating nuclear weapons effects, as well as techniques developed for use in predicting damage in Japan from attacks by Godzilla, Mothra, and particularly Mechagodzilla, the damages from this week’s invasion by the Chitauri have been estimated," Watson wrote in his damage assessment, tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Savannah Morning News, 05/14/2012