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. obstacles
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
2. current
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
3. habitation
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
4. potential
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
5. jostle
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
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