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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. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Tundra
Yacht
Hypocrisy
Eclectic


2. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Guerrilla
Protagonist
Plateau
Kilometer


3. Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Lichen
Ultraviolet
Spectrum
Random


4. The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Tranquility
Bandolier
Decorum
Dialogue


5. To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Dialogue
Gargoyle
Bamboozle
Undulate


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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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