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5 Elementary Words

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 long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

► ensure

► swarm

► counter

► recluse

2. Anything that assures a certain outcome.

► diminish

► guarantee

► circumference

► pertinent

3. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

► barricade

► quell

► source

► sabotage

4. To move in a quick fashion.

► hasten

► luminous

► outlandish

► stamina

5. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► gusto

► repugnant

► falter

► waft

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This Week's Word In The News 

INITIATE

DEFINITION:
To set going by taking the first step; begin.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Troopers initiated a pursuit of the vehicle at the rest area on Interstate 71 just north of the Ohio 123 exit east of Lebanon, troopers said.
►The Dayton Daily News, 05/20/2013


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