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. pristine
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
2. potential
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
3. similar
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. bluff
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
5. materialize
► To completely engage the attention of.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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