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. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
2. To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
3. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
4. Quick and neat in action; skillful.
5. The brink of a dangerous situation.
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