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. weather
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
2. somber
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
3. swagger
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
4. commotion
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
5. kindle
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
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