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. barricade
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
2. dismal
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
3. relationship
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. aplomb
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
5. oppose
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.