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. compose
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To make something by merging parts.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
2. terse
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
3. evidence
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. influence
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. majority
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► The source or reason of an event or action
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.