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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. Ozone
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
2. Malignant
► To condescend to give or grant
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
3. Omnivore
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Random
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
5. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► 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.
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