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. scarcity
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
2. unsightly
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
3. replenish
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To clarify or make something understandable
4. banish
► To make something by merging parts.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
5. malleable
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
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