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. clarify
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
2. translucent
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
3. sabotage
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
4. minority
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
5. momentum
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
