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. meander
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
2. brandish
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
3. deft
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
4. illuminate
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
5. barricade
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.