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. source
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
2. quell
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
3. barricade
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
4. apprehensive
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
5. acquire
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility