
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. Formidable
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
3. Decorum
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Accentuate
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
5. Protagonist
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
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