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. habitation
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. attentive
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
3. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
4. affect
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
5. concoction
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
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