
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. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
2. Hieroglyphic
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The arrangement of events in time
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Nocturnal
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night