A Quick Current Events Vocab Quiz: "Bemuse"/"Amuse" + "Integrity" in Numbers

As President François Hollande's solo appearance at a lavish State dinner challenges protocol experts, Olympian skiers tie for the gold amid abundant sunshine, and, after a night of mulling, House Speaker John A. Boehner abandons of another debt-ceiling debate, we present: This week's news from a vocabularian's perspective!

Quiz yourself on 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage with A Quick Current Events Vocab Quiz: "Bemuse"/"Amuse" + "Integrity" in Numbers. (Go a little deeper into the "skunking" of bemuse/amuse with Vocabulary.com lexicogrpher Ben Zimmer's Word Routes column, Perplexed by "Nonplussed" and "Bemused".)

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