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. majority
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
2. knoll
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
3. reflection
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
4. function
► What something does or is used for.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► To make something by merging parts.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
5. impending
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
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