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. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Sacrifice
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Protagonist
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Tsunami
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
5. Fallacy
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace