
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. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
2. Omnivore
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Participle
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
4. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
5. Solstice
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
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