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. effect
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. jut
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
3. banish
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To make something by merging parts.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
4. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
5. concoction
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
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