
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. Nocturnal
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To condescend to give or grant
2. Fallacy
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
3. Gargoyle
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Ozone
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Nuisance
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
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