
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. sociable
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► A particular geographic region.
2. hasten
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
3. scarcity
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. replenish
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
5. reference
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► What something does or is used for.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.