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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 prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► Enthusiastic
► Boycott
► Heritage
► Embargo

2. One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► Nuisance
► Jaunty
► Mutation
► Technique

3. One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

► Technique
► Protagonist
► Parasite
► Typhoon

4. To proclaim publicly

► Hologram
► Divulge
► Plateau
► Tariff

5. A proportional part or share.

► Tariff
► Marsupial
► Aspire
► Quota

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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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