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. momentum
► To completely engage the attention of.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
2. multitude
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
3. guarantee
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
4. majority
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
5. pertinent
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
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