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. barricade
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► A measurement one can compare to.
2. detail
► A measurement one can compare to.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
3. oppose
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
4. area
► A particular geographic region.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. cunning
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.