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. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
2. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
3. A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
4. The source or reason of an event or action
5. To bump into or brush against while in motion.