
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. Accentuate
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Hieroglyphic
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
3. Deduction
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To condescend to give or grant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Vertebrate
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.