
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. Xylem
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
2. Tranquility
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
3. Unanimous
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
4. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal