
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. Marsupial
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
2. Nuisance
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Exult
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
4. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).