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. specimen
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
2. restitution
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
3. function
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► What something does or is used for.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. weather
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
5. reflection
► To completely engage the attention of.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
