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Words in the News

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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. An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Quota
Plateau
Laconic
Mosaic


2. The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Mosaic
Random
Alliteration
Suffrage


3. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Phloem
Tumult
Fallacy
Hypocrisy


4. A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Tsunami
Nebula
Wretched
Delegate


5. To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Bamboozle
Exult
Light-Year
Participle


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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

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