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. Rainforest
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
2. Solstice
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Ellipse
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Decorum
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct