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. except
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
2. exhilarate
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
3. compromise
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
4. brackish
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
5. bluff
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
