
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. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► The arrangement of events in time
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Exponent
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Technique
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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