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. conspicuous
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. engross
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To completely engage the attention of.
3. jargon
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
4. boundary
► What something does or is used for.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
5. oppose
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread