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 move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
2. A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
3. Obvious or easy to notice.
4. Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
5. Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
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