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. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
2. Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
3. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
5. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it