
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. analogy
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
2. diminish
3. contortion
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
4. waver
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
5. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.