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. narrate
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
2. meticulous
► To make something by merging parts.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
3. exhilarate
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
4. contortion
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. malleable
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
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