
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
► Being without or almost without hope
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
2. Kilometer
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
3. Voracious
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Spectrum
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Analogy
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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