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. quell
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
2. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
3. swarm
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
4. dispel
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. jut
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Brief, concise, to the point.