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. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
2. multitude
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
3. source
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
4. cause
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The source or reason of an event or action
5. contributions
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
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