
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. Sacrifice
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Boycott
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Embargo
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► An embankment built to prevent flooding