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. swagger
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
2. method
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
3. specimen
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. barricade
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
5. conclude
► A measurement one can compare to.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
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