
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. dispel
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
2. diminish
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
3. grueling
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
4. contortion
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. defiance
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied