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. dispel
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
2. compromise
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
3. guarantee
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
4. waver
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
5. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► More than half (50%) of some group
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