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 state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
2. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
3. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
4. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
5. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
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