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. Laconic
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Dialogue
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Exult
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
4. Repose
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Malignant
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.