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. diminish
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
2. waft
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
3. hasten
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
4. persistent
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► More than half (50%) of some group
5. disdain
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.