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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. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Alliteration
Bizarre
Tariff
Xylem


2. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Despondent
Light-Year
Embargo
Mutation


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

Deign
Pulverize
Tranquility
Formidable


4. Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Tumult
Eclectic
Impertinent
Guru


5. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Salmonella
Inference
Labyrinth
Protagonist


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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

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