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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. A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

Lichen
Chronology
Ozone
Renegade


2. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Solstice
Toxin
Phloem
Sect


3. A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Guru
Jaunty
Deign
Fallacy


4. The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Tsunami
Suffrage
Polygon
Aspire


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

Aspire
Enthusiastic
Protagonist
Technique


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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