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
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
2. Light-Year
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Deduction
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
4. Fallacy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Vertebrate
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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