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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 proportional part or share.

► Formidable
► Quota
► Gargoyle
► Bamboozle

2. One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► Bamboozle
► Phloem
► Lichen
► Nuisance

3. The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

► Undulate
► Jovial
► Strategy
► Marsupial

4. Being without or almost without hope

► Heritage
► Despondent
► Nebula
► Decorum

5. Self-examination.

► Introspection
► Camouflage
► Suffrage
► Alliteration

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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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