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. Malignant
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Mutation
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Spectrum
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Protagonist
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
5. Commemorate
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.