
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. Boisterous
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Silhouette
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
3. Quarantine
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
5. Rainforest
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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