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. similar
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. scarcity
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. terse
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. accomplish
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
5. luminous
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.