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. dismal
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
2. quell
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
3. kindle
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. replenish
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
5. analyze
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.