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. counter
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
2. grueling
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
3. monotonous
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
4. abolish
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
5. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To make something by merging parts.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
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