
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. Tempo
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Despondent
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Alliteration
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Metaphor
► A proportional part or share.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Xylem
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief