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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 rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Inference
Salmonella
Enthusiastic
Exult


2. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Undulate
Camouflage
Random
Hypocrisy


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

Spectrum
Bizarre
Alliteration
Phloem


4. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Mosaic
Symbiosis
Silhouette
Nocturnal


5. The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Decorum
Tariff
Suffrage
Tundra


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

FIASCO

DEFINITION:
A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010

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