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. To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
2. To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
3. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
5. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
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