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Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary Words
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. The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
2. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. Something small enough to escape casual notice.
5. Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way