
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. Ellipse
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
2. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Hypocrisy
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Inference
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Fallacy
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony