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. Nuisance
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
2. Chronology
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The arrangement of events in time
3. Embargo
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Hologram
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
5. Quandary
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
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