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. defiance
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
2. reduce
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
3. translucent
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
4. jabber
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
5. acquire
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
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