
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. accomplish
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
2. pristine
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
3. destination
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► To make something by merging parts.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
4. function
► What something does or is used for.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
5. contortion
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.