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. jargon
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
2. gusto
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. abolish
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. hasten
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. waver
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
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