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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. acquire
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
2. current
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
3. interdependence
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
4. ignite
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. jargon
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
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