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. Commemorate
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Vaccine
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
3. Cower
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
4. Sect
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
5. Virtuoso
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
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