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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. Commemorate
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Tsunami
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
3. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
4. Vertebrate
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
5. Decorum
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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Here on the Western Slope, young citizens are honing and testing their skills to take on a rapidly changing world. Largely thanks to technology, they are in the midst of the most profound seismic shift the world has ever seen.
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