
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. Renaissance
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Laconic
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
3. Plateau
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Nebula
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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