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. replenish
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. analyze
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
3. jut
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
4. source
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
5. quell
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
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