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. Tempo
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
2. Technique
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Exponent
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
4. Chronology
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The arrangement of events in time
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
5. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Being without or almost without hope