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. Displeasing to the eye
2. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
3. The result or outcome of a cause.
4. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
5. To overpower; to subdue; to put down.