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. pristine
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
2. guarantee
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
3. influence
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
4. infer
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
5. frequency