Las Vegas Newspapers in Education

Generate your own quiz here!

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 state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Flourish
Quandary
Mosaic
Bamboozle

2. A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Random
Tundra
Renegade
Suffrage

3. The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Voracious
Ellipse
Fallacy
Salmonella

4. Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

Salmonella
Jovial
Commemorate
Impertinent

5. To cringe in fear

Accentuate
Delegate
Virtuoso
Cower