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. chronological
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
2. monotonous
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► A particular geographic region.
3. reference
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
4. jargon
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
5. affect
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number