
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. serenity
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► A particular geographic region.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
2. vulnerable
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. obstacles
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
4. ominous
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
5. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.