
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. Malignant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Silhouette
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
3. Repose
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
4. Antibody
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Lichen
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,