
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. furtive
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
2. affect
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
3. chronological
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
4. brandish
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
5. luminous
► A particular geographic region.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary