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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. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Metaphor
Marsupial
Toxin
Silhouette

3. Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Ozone
Malignant
Light-Year
Vacillate

4. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Labyrinth
Bamboozle
Ultraviolet
Kilometer

5. A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Kilometer
Undulate
Quandary
Dialogue

FIASCO
DEFINITION: A complete failure, especially one that is ignominious or humiliating.	FOUND IN THE NEWS: A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted. Dallas Morning News, 03/15/2010