
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. Renegade
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
2. Repose
► The arrangement of events in time
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Enthusiastic
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Tempo
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Delegate
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A proportional part or share.
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