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. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
3. A state of confused and noisy disturbance
4. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
5. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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