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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. Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Unanimous
Bizarre
Ultraviolet
Yacht

2. A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Ultraviolet
Yacht
Ellipse
Polygon

3. To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Pulverize
Random
Camouflage
Wretched

4. The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Wretched
Lichen
Phloem
Quandary

5. An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Sect
Ozone
Decorum
Salmonella

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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

FIASCO

DEFINITION:
A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010

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