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. Divulge
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Introspection
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A proportional part or share.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Vacillate
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Tariff
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
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