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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. furtive
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
2. weather
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
3. ember
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
4. materialize
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
5. accomplish
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
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