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. economy
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
2. infer
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
3. method
► More than half (50%) of some group
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To completely engage the attention of.
4. significance
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
5. misgivings
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
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