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. furtive
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. defiance
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
3. stamina
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
4. minority
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
5. jabber
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
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