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. analyze
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
2. relationship
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
3. somber
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
4. dismal
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
5. scurry
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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