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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 make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
2. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
3. More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
4. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
5. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
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