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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. Silhouette
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
2. Participle
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
3. Analogy
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
5. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
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