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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. To completely engage the attention of.
2. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
3. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
4. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
5. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
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