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. jabber
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. compromise
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
3. relationship
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
4. destination
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
5. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To make something by merging parts.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
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