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. Tumult
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
2. Mosaic
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Polygon
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Wretched
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.