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

Analogy
Undulate
Hologram
Hypocrisy


2. Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Bizarre
Fallacy
Antibody
Symbiosis


3. A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Antibody
Symbiosis
Flourish
Kilometer


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

Technique
Malignant
Immune
Exponent


5. A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Ozone
Camouflage
Gargoyle
Nuisance


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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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