
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. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Outrageous
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Boisterous
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
4. Repose
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Pulverize
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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