
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. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A proportional part or share.
2. Malignant
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Nuisance
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Polygon
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.