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. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

► ensure

► guarantee

► narrate

► stamina

2. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

3. Connection or association; the condition of being related.

4. More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

5. A great amount or number, often of people.

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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

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