
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. versatile
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Capable of doing many things competently
2. knoll
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
3. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
4. persistent
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
5. deft
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.