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. cunning
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. narrate
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
3. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
4. circumference
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A measurement one can compare to.
5. vigilant
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
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