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5 Elementary Words

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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 relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

current

subside

narrate

scurry


2. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

zeal

analyze

source

chronological


3. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

topic

observe

establish

contortion


4. A process of compensation for losses.

restitution

destination

reference

reduce


5. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

waver

pertinent

analogy

dismal


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This Week's Word In The News 

ASSESSMENT

DEFINITION:
The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"Using computer models ... for estimating nuclear weapons effects, as well as techniques developed for use in predicting damage in Japan from attacks by Godzilla, Mothra, and particularly Mechagodzilla, the damages from this week’s invasion by the Chitauri have been estimated," Watson wrote in his damage assessment, tongue firmly planted in cheek.
Savannah Morning News, 05/14/2012