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. deft
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. egregious
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
3. weather
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. emerge
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
5. versatile
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Capable of doing many things competently
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