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Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Hemoglobin

Epiphany

Wrought

Paradigm


2. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Laissez faire

Filibuster

Kowtow

Abstemious


3. An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Quasar

Metamorphosis

Enfranchise

Usurp


4. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Enfranchise

Usurp

Tempestuous

Tautology


5. A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Parabola

Quotidian

Enervate

Circumnavigate


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This Week's Word In The News 

DERECHO

DEFINITION:
A widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
derecho windstorms occur once every year or two across the central and northeastern U.S. in a band from Texas to New England.
The Dayton Daily News, 06/17/2013