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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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Middle School High School By Word By Definition 5 10 15 20 Questions

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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