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. guarantee
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
2. area
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A particular geographic region.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
3. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To clarify or make something understandable
4. establish
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
5. observe
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.