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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. To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
2. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
3. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
4. A process of compensation for losses.
5. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.