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. except
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
2. muster
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
3. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. frequency
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
5. subside
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle