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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 preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► Unanimous
► Vaccine
► Eclectic
► Sect


2. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► Ellipse
► Divulge
► Mutation
► Antibody


3. Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► Labyrinth
► Yacht
► Vacillate
► Tumult


4. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► Accentuate
► Malignant
► Cower
► Tranquility


5. A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

► Lichen
► Deign
► Guerrilla
► Nocturnal


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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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