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. gusto
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
2. foresight
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A measurement one can compare to.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
3. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
4. pristine
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. waver
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Brief, concise, to the point.
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