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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

LIQUIDITY

DEFINITION:
Capable of covering current liabilities quickly with current assets.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"The Central Bank said Electronica had inadequate liquidity to meet its depositors' and creditors' demands."
Moscow Times, Nov. 17, 2008

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

Virtuoso
Boycott
Hypocrisy
Maneuver


2. To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Protagonist
Recede
Accentuate
Malignant


3. A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Ozone
Bandolier
Quandary
Deduction


4. Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Parasite
Analogy
Renaissance
Delegate


5. To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Delegate
Technique
Nuisance
Vacillate


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