
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. Protagonist
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A proportional part or share.
2. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
3. Embargo
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Deduction
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Solstice
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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