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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. Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► Inference
► Eclectic
► Formidable
► Vertebrate

2. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► Bizarre
► Nocturnal
► Undulate
► Guerrilla

3. The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► Aspire
► Technique
► Protagonist
► Impertinent

4. A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► Impertinent
► Accentuate
► Lichen
► Rainforest

5. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► Light-Year
► Xylem
► Delegate
► Tsunami

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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

ABOMINATION

DEFINITION:
A cause of abhorrence or disgust.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In just three months, Arizona's controversial new immigration law has shaken the national political scene, viewed either as a civil-rights abomination or the symbol of a state stepping up to do a difficult job that the U.S. government refuses to do.
►azcentral.com, 07/25/2010

Lesson plans for use with the e-Edition on Interactive White Boards

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