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. degree
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
2. cunning
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
3. construct
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
4. frequency
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► A great amount or number, often of people.
5. barricade
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
