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. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Malignant
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Despondent
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Being without or almost without hope
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Laconic
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.