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. apprehensive
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
2. concoction
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
3. counter
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
4. momentum
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
5. conspicuous
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
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