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

► Delegate
► Metaphor
► Marsupial
► Recede

2. A rebirth or revival.

► Recede
► Analogy
► Renaissance
► Labyrinth

3. A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► Mosaic
► Tariff
► Omnivore
► Boycott

4. A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

► Boycott
► Technique
► Lichen
► Guru

5. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► Symbiosis
► Tumult
► Tsunami
► Deign

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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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