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Words in the News

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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 cringe in fear

Zoology
Ozone
Cower
Camouflage

2. Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Enthusiastic
Participle
Exult
Alliteration

3. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Typhoon
Symbiosis
Random
Tsunami

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

Renaissance
Renegade
Technique
Yacht

5. To stress or emphasize; intensify

Pulverize
Accentuate
Wretched
Bamboozle

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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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