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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. 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
Pulverize
Phloem
Decorum
2. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
Quarantine
Alliteration
Xylem
Tsunami
3. Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
Tsunami
Laconic
Enthusiastic
Despondent
4. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
5. A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation
Tranquility
Tundra
Chronology
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