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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.

Cower
Wretched
Mosaic
Tumult


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
Delegate


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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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