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. Jovial
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Sect
► A proportional part or share.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Laconic
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Wretched
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
5. Nuisance
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.