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. bluff
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
2. swagger
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To make something by merging parts.
3. meander
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
4. effect
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
5. symbolism
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
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