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Words in the News Quiz
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
2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. A pleasant smell or odour.
5. A particular geographic region.
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