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. area
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► A particular geographic region.
2. egregious
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
3. jut
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
4. ensure
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. deft
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.