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. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
2. compromise
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
3. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
4. clarify
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
5. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.