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. diminish
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
2. materialize
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. chronological
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
4. element
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
5. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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