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. Tempo
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Boisterous
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
3. Silhouette
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
4. Deign
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To condescend to give or grant
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Undulate
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► A proportional part or share.
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