
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. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Levee
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A proportional part or share.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Salmonella
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Commemorate
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Unanimous
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
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