
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. Bamboozle
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Inference
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Jovial
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
4. Tundra
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Guerrilla
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
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