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
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Technique
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Dialogue
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
4. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
5. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.