
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. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Symbiosis
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
3. Jaunty
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Hieroglyphic
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
5. Tranquility
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
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