
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. Nuisance
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Despondent
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Voracious
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Hypocrisy
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Yacht
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.