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. disdain
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
2. function
► What something does or is used for.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
3. primarily
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
4. concoction
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
5. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To make something by merging parts.
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