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. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
2. A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
3. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
4. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. Existing or occurring at the moment.