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. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
2. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
3. Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
4. The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
5. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.