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. exhilarate
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. eavesdrop
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
3. swarm
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
4. accomplish
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. value
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
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