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. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Bandolier
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Typhoon
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Analogy
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
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