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
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Quarantine
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Virtuoso
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
4. Tariff
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
5. Typhoon
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
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