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Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Obsequious

Hubris

Chicanery

Unctuous


2. Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Deleterious

Gauche

Expurgate

Nonsectarian


3. Logical incongruity

Contradiction

Chromosome

Diffident

Nihilism


4. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Winnow

Bellicose

Precipitous

Soliloquy


5. Tumultuous; stormy.

Soliloquy

Fiduciary

Tempestuous

Fatuous


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This Week's Word In The News 

DERECHO

DEFINITION:
A widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
derecho windstorms occur once every year or two across the central and northeastern U.S. in a band from Texas to New England.
The Dayton Daily News, 06/17/2013

Arizona Media in Education - the Arizona Republic - azcentral.com