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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. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Nebula
Mosaic
Malignant
Divulge


2. An embankment built to prevent flooding

Bandolier
Levee
Strategy
Quota


3. Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Exponent
Rainforest
Sacrifice
Antibody


4. To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Solstice
Cower
Commemorate
Mutation


5. Being without or almost without hope

Despondent
Deign
Hieroglyphic
Light-Year


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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