
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. Despondent
► Being without or almost without hope
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Tariff
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A proportional part or share.
3. Bizarre
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Typhoon
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Rainforest
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