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. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
3. To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.