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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. The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Malignant
Technique
Deign
Salmonella


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

Undulate
Unanimous
Solstice
Ellipse


3. Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Ultraviolet
Chronology
Pulverize
Voracious


4. Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Sacrifice
Inference
Bandolier
Tundra


5. A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Tumult
Tsunami
Quota
Quarantine


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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