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 move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
2. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
3. The extent to which something matters; importance
4. Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
5. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.