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. Inference
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► A proportional part or share.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
2. Participle
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
3. Outrageous
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To condescend to give or grant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
5. Xylem
► To condescend to give or grant
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.