
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. Vertebrate
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Phloem
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
3. Tsunami
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
4. Boisterous
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
5. Vaccine
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.