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. Solstice
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Phloem
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
3. Formidable
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
4. Introspection
► Being without or almost without hope
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Undulate
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.