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. classify
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
2. establish
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
3. furtive
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To make something by merging parts.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
4. infer
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
5. dismal
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
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