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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. The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

2. A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

Laconic
Lichen
Ultraviolet
Metaphor

3. An embankment built to prevent flooding

Metaphor
Bamboozle
Stereotype
Levee

4. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Aspire
Flourish
Malignant
Light-Year

5. Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Light-Year
Undulate
Quarantine
Mutation

CHAFE
DEFINITION: To feel irritated or impatient	FOUND IN THE NEWS: School districts have begun to chafe under the state's mandatory late-August starting date, saying that it makes it nearly impossible to accommodate the needs of students, parents and teachers. Dallas Morning News, 03/08/2010

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