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. A process of compensation for losses.
2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
3. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
4. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
5. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.