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Words in the News

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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 swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Voracious
Vacillate
Recede
Heritage

2. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Heritage
Jovial
Virtuoso
Solstice

3. Being without or almost without hope

Hieroglyphic
Divulge
Metaphor
Despondent

4. The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

Stereotype
Deduction
Suffrage
Pulverize

5. Self-examination.

Introspection
Parasite
Sect
Dialogue

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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

CHAFE

DEFINITION:
To feel irritated or impatient

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
School districts have begun to chafe under the state's mandatory late-August starting date, saying that it makes it nearly impossible to accommodate the needs of students, parents and teachers.
Dallas Morning News, 03/08/2010


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