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. Bamboozle
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
3. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A schedule of prices or fees.
4. Decorum
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.