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. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
2. To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
3. To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
4. Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
5. A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
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