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Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words
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. To proceed completely around:
2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
4. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
5. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.