
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. vigilant
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
2. function
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► What something does or is used for.
3. abolish
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
4. furtive
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
5. commotion
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance