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. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. zeal
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
3. degree
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
4. impact
► To clarify or make something understandable
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. terse
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Brief, concise, to the point.
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