
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. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
2. Hieroglyphic
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
3. Jaunty
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Maneuver
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
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