Resources for Teachers and Students
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. quell
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
2. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
3. except
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
4. chronological
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
5. vulnerable
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
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