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. barricade
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
2. vigilant
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
3. stamina
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. furtive
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
5. evidence
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.