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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. Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

2. Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Quandary
Enthusiastic
Repose
Hieroglyphic

3. Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Heritage
Hologram
Jovial
Malignant

4. The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Jovial
Malignant
Outrageous
Alliteration

5. A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Nebula
Undulate
Antibody
Guru

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