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. precipice
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
2. degree
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
3. bluff
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
4. except
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
5. brackish
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air