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. commotion
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
2. analyze
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► What something does or is used for.
3. emerge
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
4. eavesdrop
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
5. potential
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.