
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. Cower
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Embargo
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Outrageous
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Deduction
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief