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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. Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Yacht
Immune
Maneuver
Formidable


2. To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Enthusiastic
Undulate
Wretched
Analogy


3. Being without or almost without hope

Suffrage
Despondent
Dialogue
Nuisance


4. Having a backbone or spinal column.

Nuisance
Commemorate
Voracious
Vertebrate


5. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Labyrinth
Mosaic
Exult
Tumult


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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