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. clarify
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
2. illuminate
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
3. symbolism
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
4. brackish
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
5. waver
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.