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. unsightly
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. grueling
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The source or reason of an event or action
3. recluse
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
4. emerge
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To clarify or make something understandable
5. brackish
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
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