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. various
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
2. chronological
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
3. jabber
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
4. jargon
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► What something does or is used for.
5. uncanny
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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