
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. Impertinent
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Gargoyle
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
3. Nuisance
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
4. Xylem
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Aspire
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
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