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. grueling
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
2. commotion
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. jargon
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► A particular geographic region.
4. classify
► A particular geographic region.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
5. source
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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