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 send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
2. dispel
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
3. relationship
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
4. source
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. abolish
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
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