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. classify
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
2. effect
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
3. minority
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
4. convey
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. banish
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► What something does or is used for.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.