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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 relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Symbiosis
Salmonella
Guru
Accentuate


2. Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Tranquility
Yacht
Vaccine
Parasite


3. Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Hieroglyphic
Alliteration
Silhouette
Repose


4. The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Jovial
Zoology
Unanimous
Virtuoso


5. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Virtuoso
Aspire
Bizarre
Embargo


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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