
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. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Renaissance
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Yacht
► The arrangement of events in time
4. Polygon
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Vacillate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.