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. serenity
► The source or reason of an event or action
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
2. aptitude
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
3. circumference
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
4. various
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
5. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.