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. 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.
2. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
3. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
4. To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
5. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage