
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. Embargo
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Symbiosis
► The arrangement of events in time
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
3. Impertinent
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
4. Hypocrisy
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Lichen
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,