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. headway
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To clarify or make something understandable
2. misgivings
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
3. cause
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The source or reason of an event or action
4. contributions
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
5. repugnant
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
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