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. abolish
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
2. current
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
3. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
4. potential
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
5. degree
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► What something does or is used for.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
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