
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. disdain
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
2. unsightly
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
3. element
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To make something by merging parts.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
4. bluff
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
5. outlandish
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.