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. evidence
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
2. brandish
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
3. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. exhilarate
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
5. egregious
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed