
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. Maneuver
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Pulverize
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Symbiosis
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Eclectic
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
5. Guru
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To condescend to give or grant
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