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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. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
2. To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
3. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
4. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
5. To make smaller.
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