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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. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
2. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
3. The system of production and distribution and consumption.
4. Open resistance; bold disobedience.
5. An opponent or rival.