
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. relationship
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► A particular geographic region.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► To clarify or make something understandable
2. diminish
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► The result or outcome of a cause.
3. jargon
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
4. vulnerable
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
5. impending
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance