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. Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
3. A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.
4. The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
5. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
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