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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. affect
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
2. compose
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► To make something by merging parts.
3. guarantee
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
4. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
5. tactic
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
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