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Words in the News Quiz
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 make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

clarify

contributions

brandish

repugnant


2. The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

narrate

circumference

concoction

conclude


3. Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts

conclude

jut

interpret

various


4. Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

relationship

source

conspicuous

symbolism


5. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

eavesdrop

vulnerable

emerge

influence


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This Week's Word In The News 

DERECHO

DEFINITION:
A widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
derecho windstorms occur once every year or two across the central and northeastern U.S. in a band from Texas to New England.
The Dayton Daily News, 06/17/2013

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