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Visit the online “quiz of breaking news and obscure words.” This handy site, maintained by Kevin Johnson, a news writer at USA Today, takes little or unknown words used in news articles and posts them for your review. For example, do you know the following meanings of these words?

Lachanophilia
Vinculum
Aggestion

Answers below:

A love of vegetables
A tie, link or bond
Heaping up, or accumulation

This site offers obscure words, their definitions, along with a pronunciation guide plus an opportunity to sign up for free e-mail alerts featuring unusual words in the news. What are you waiting for? Check it out! As writers, we can never learn too many new words to add to our writing vocabulary, don’t you agree?

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