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
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
2. diminish
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► More than half (50%) of some group
3. counter
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
4. dismal
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
5. ominous
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
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