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. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
2. Levee
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Boisterous
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
4. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
5. Vertebrate
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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