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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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