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. Protagonist
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Enthusiastic
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
3. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► To condescend to give or grant
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Mutation
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
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