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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. Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Fallacy
Tariff
Gargoyle
Tempo


2. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Tempo
Boycott
Inference
Chronology


3. Being without or almost without hope

Virtuoso
Zoology
Despondent
Nebula


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

Hypocrisy
Alliteration
Exponent
Enthusiastic


5. 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.

Wretched
Ultraviolet
Labyrinth
Flourish


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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