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THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

VOLATILE

RECENTLY ADDED WORDS IN THE NEWS:

Egalitarian
Charismatic
Bankruptcy
Monotheistic

DEFINITION:
Tending to vary often or widely, as in price: the ups and downs of volatile stocks.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"The world's financial markets face an uncertain and possibly volatile week as investors await details about how the Treasury will implement the government's financial rescue package."
Yahoo News, Oct. 5, 2008

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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. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Boisterous
Decorum
Protagonist
Recede


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

Recede
Heritage
Vertebrate
Guru


3. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Enthusiastic
Delegate
Mutation
Alliteration


4. An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Metaphor
Ozone
Malignant
Antibody


5. The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Tundra
Tranquility
Exult
Ultraviolet


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