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. Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
2. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
3. A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
4. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
5. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
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