
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. Recede
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Inference
► A proportional part or share.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Nebula
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
5. Yacht
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
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