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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. The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

► Guerrilla
► Tempo
► Hologram
► Kilometer

2. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► Omnivore
► Hypocrisy
► Xylem
► Deign

3. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► Plateau
► Toxin
► Camouflage
► Exult

4. An embankment built to prevent flooding

► Exult
► Wretched
► Levee
► Unanimous

5. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► Boisterous
► Typhoon
► Alliteration
► Immune

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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