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. Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
5. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
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