
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. Solstice
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
2. Introspection
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Metaphor
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Random
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
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