
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. Bamboozle
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Typhoon
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
3. Marsupial
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Malignant
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
5. Spectrum
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To condescend to give or grant
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