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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. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
2. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. Having an unvarying tone or pitch
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