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. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
2. To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
3. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
4. Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
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