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. Polygon
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Recede
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
3. Hologram
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Exult
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Ellipse
► The arrangement of events in time
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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