
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. Light-Year
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Being without or almost without hope
► To condescend to give or grant
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
3. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Technique
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The arrangement of events in time
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
5. Tariff
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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