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 hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
2. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
3. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
4. A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
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