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. pertinent
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
2. replenish
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. similar
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
4. specimen
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
5. dismal
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
