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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. A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Silhouette
Flourish
Typhoon
Deign

2. To cringe in fear

Cower
Tsunami
Outrageous
Lichen

3. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Inference
Repose
Nocturnal
Mutation

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

Eclectic
Strategy
Exponent
Exult

5. The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Phloem
Omnivore
Toxin
Hypocrisy