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. cunning
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. scarcity
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. chronological
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
4. meander
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
5. monotonous
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
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