
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. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
2. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
3. subside
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
4. deft
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
5. ominous
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance