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. Hieroglyphic
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Repose
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
4. Exponent
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Quandary
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.