
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. Maneuver
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
2. Jaunty
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Heritage
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
4. Introspection
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
5. Deign
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To condescend to give or grant
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