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. Malignant
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Technique
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Camouflage
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
5. Decorum
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct