
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. Sect
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
3. Symbiosis
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
5. Hologram
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
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