Words in the News

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Words in the News Quiz
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 cause to float easily or gently through the air

current

destination

source

waft


2. To make happy, cheer up.

exhilarate

recluse

primarily

interdependence


3. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

stamina

ember

significance

somber


4. What something does or is used for.

significance

somber

debris

function


5. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

narrate

apprehensive

circumference

outlandish


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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