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. meander
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
3. hasten
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► To make something by merging parts.
4. oppose
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
5. effect
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
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