
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. Heritage
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Deign
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Strategy
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Laconic
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
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