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. meander
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
2. jabber
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
3. gusto
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
4. serenity
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
5. analyze
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► To make something by merging parts.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
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