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. area
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► A particular geographic region.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
3. reduce
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
4. defiance
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
5. furtive
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
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