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. Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
2. To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
3. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
5. The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
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