
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. Omnivore
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
2. Aspire
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
3. Rainforest
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Ellipse
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
5. Xylem
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.