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. Pulverize
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Divulge
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
3. Despondent
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Tariff
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Symbiosis
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.