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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 rebirth or revival.

► Sect
► Phloem
► Plateau
► Renaissance

2. Having a backbone or spinal column.

► Vertebrate
► Marsupial
► Nocturnal
► Laconic

3. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► Undulate
► Tumult
► Hologram
► Voracious

4. A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► Hologram
► Voracious
► Commemorate
► Typhoon

5. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► Exult
► Bizarre
► Fallacy
► Embargo

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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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