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. Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
2. To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
3. Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. The dividing line or location between two areas.
5. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
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