
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. Polygon
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
2. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Tariff
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Stereotype
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Cower
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
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