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This Week in Words: December 30, 2017 - January 5, 2018

No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week.

This first week of the New Year was filled new beginnings. Orrin Hatch, longtime senator from Utah, announced his retirement and drew the ire of the President. The recent protests in Iran suggest that the Iranian people will rebuff authoritarian rule, and new overtures by Kim Jong-Un may thaw chilly relations between North and South Korea.

Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.
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