
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. Technique
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Tumult
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Malignant
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.