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. commotion
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
2. meander
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
3. terse
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
4. boundary
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
5. diminish
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
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