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. ominous
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
2. majority
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
3. analyze
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
4. narrate
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
5. compose
► A particular geographic region.
► To make something by merging parts.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts