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 clarify or make something understandable
2. To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
3. To make smaller.
4. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
5. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.