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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Laconic
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
4. Suffrage
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
5. Tranquility
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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