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. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
2. To come into view.
3. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
4. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
5. The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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