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. Antibody
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Bamboozle
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Repose
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Participle
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
5. Guru
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
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