
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. Silhouette
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
2. Random
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Recede
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
4. Light-Year
► The arrangement of events in time
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Hypocrisy
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative