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. degree
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
2. kindle
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
3. subside
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. jabber
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
5. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
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