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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. An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

► Tariff
► Bandolier
► Levee
► Undulate

2. Being without or almost without hope

► Deduction
► Despondent
► Sacrifice
► Silhouette

3. The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► Fallacy
► Polygon
► Repose
► Recede

4. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► Renaissance
► Camouflage
► Analogy
► Jaunty

5. The arrangement of events in time

► Nebula
► Hologram
► Strategy
► Chronology

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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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