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. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Renaissance
► The arrangement of events in time
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Rainforest
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Parasite
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
5. Protagonist
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.