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. Kilometer
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Analogy
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
3. Vacillate
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
4. Exult
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
5. Divulge
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
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