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5 Elementary Words

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 sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

► waver

► muster

► bluff

► apprehensive

2. To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

► apprehensive

► guarantee

► except

► reduce

3. A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

► oppose

► swarm

► topic

► potential

4. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► potential

► cause

► analogy

► analyze

5. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► counter

► chronological

► boundary

► influence

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This Week's Word In The News 

BIOTECH

DEFINITION:
Short for biotechnology: the use of a living organism, biological substances or techniques to engineer or manufacture a product or substance, as when cells that produce antibodies are cloned in order to study their effects on cancer cells.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meanwhile, a new front opened Friday in the battle over the bill, with Democrats vowing to amend it to include biotech companies, and a group opposed to embryonic stem cell research pledging to block the measure if that happens. 
►The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 05/13/2013