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. illuminate
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
2. pristine
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
3. reduce
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
4. egregious
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. scarcity
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
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