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. exhilarate
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
2. brackish
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
3. falter
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
4. jostle
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The extent to which something matters; importance
5. obscure
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
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