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This Week in Words: July 9 - 15, 2017

No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top ten words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. The news this week is best compared to a three-ring political circus, or perhaps a zoo. In addition to the media spectacle that was the meeting between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and their intractable problems, the alleged Russian election tampering story grew, and now implicates Donald Trump, Jr. in possible collusion with the Russians. There was a widely circulated story about a very old hippopotamus, as well as news that a popular felt frog is getting a new speaking voice. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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