
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. Vacillate
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Impertinent
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
3. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Nocturnal
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
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