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5 Elementary Words

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. Emitting light; glowing brightly

exhilarate

luminous

obscure

deft


2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

clarify

dispel

subside

furtive


3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

subside

furtive

frequency

dismal


4. A pleasant smell or odour.

attentive

fragrance

relationship

banish


5. A particular geographic region.

concoction

jabber

area

debris


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This Week's Word In The News 

COUNTERVAILING

DEFINITION:
Acting against with equal force. Exerting force against an opposing and often bad or harmful force or influence.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The announcement came after the Government Accountability Board faced countervailing pressures from those who urged that the petitions be made readily available and from those who raised concerns about the safety of domestic abuse victims who wanted to keep their addresses confidential.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 02/06/2012