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. ember
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
2. circumference
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
3. potential
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
4. establish
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
5. effect
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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