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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 cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Exult
Rainforest
Pulverize
Sect


2. A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Gargoyle
Tsunami
Boisterous
Analogy


3. One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Analogy
Delegate
Omnivore
Nuisance


4. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Renegade
Hypocrisy
Zoology
Decorum


5. The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Parasite
Nocturnal
Protagonist
Recede


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

FIASCO

DEFINITION:
A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010







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