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. attentive
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
2. outlandish
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
3. waft
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
4. exasperation
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
5. counter
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.