
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. Tumult
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Xylem
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Spectrum
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Bamboozle
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
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