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. Progress toward a goal.
2. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
3. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
4. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
5. To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
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