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. Eclectic
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To condescend to give or grant
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Vaccine
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
4. Despondent
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Being without or almost without hope
5. Pulverize
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.