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. circumference
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
2. pertinent
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
3. adversary
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
4. versatile
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
5. potential
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
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