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. establish
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
2. ominous
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
3. monotonous
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
4. disdain
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
5. oppose
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious