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. bluff
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► A particular geographic region.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
2. meticulous
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
3. value
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
4. recluse
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
5. hasten
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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