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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. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Tempo
Ellipse
Salmonella
Kilometer


2. To cringe in fear

Laconic
Ozone
Cower
Formidable


3. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Participle
Polygon
Renaissance
Nocturnal


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

Immune
Spectrum
Metaphor
Renegade


5. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Metaphor
Renegade
Aspire
Mutation


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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

CHAFE

DEFINITION:
To feel irritated or impatient

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
School districts have begun to chafe under the state's mandatory late-August starting date, saying that it makes it nearly impossible to accommodate the needs of students, parents and teachers.
Dallas Morning News, 03/08/2010