
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. contortion
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
2. outlandish
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
3. deft
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. eavesdrop
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.