
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. Sacrifice
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
2. Mosaic
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Tranquility
► The arrangement of events in time
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
4. Jovial
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Bamboozle
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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