
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. Fallacy
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
2. Tumult
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
3. Tranquility
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To condescend to give or grant
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Strategy
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Parasite
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
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