
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 act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
2. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
3. The source or reason of an event or action
4. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
5. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied