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. waft
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
2. somber
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
3. infer
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
4. source
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. except
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.