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. restitution
► A measurement one can compare to.
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
2. debris
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
3. momentum
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
4. cunning
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
5. except
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering