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. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. contortion
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
3. kindle
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
4. compromise
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► What something does or is used for.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
5. adversary
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.