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. Introspection
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Exult
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Quarantine
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Phloem
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
5. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Being without or almost without hope
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
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