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. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. A process of compensation for losses.
3. To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
5. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
