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. bluff
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
2. circumference
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
3. compromise
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
4. current
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
5. clarify
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied