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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. A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► Antibody
► Kilometer
► Salmonella
► Hologram

2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► Mutation
► Metaphor
► Yacht
► Levee

3. To proclaim publicly

► Outrageous
► Tumult
► Divulge
► Tundra

4. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► Bamboozle
► Fallacy
► Laconic
► Tsunami

5. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► Deduction
► Inference
► Wretched
► Jovial

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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







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