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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. monotonous
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
2. meander
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. meticulous
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
4. obstacles
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
5. swagger
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A measurement one can compare to.
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