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. jargon
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. cause
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
3. primarily
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► To make something by merging parts.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
4. chronological
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
5. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries