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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 start (a fire) or light (a torch).
2. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
3. A bold, or arrogant strut.
4. To bump into or brush against while in motion.
5. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
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