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. outlandish
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
2. muster
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
3. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
4. malleable
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
5. knoll
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen