
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. waver
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
2. uncanny
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
3. degree
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
4. concoction
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
5. emerge
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► More than half (50%) of some group