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. monotonous
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A process of compensation for losses.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► The result or outcome of a cause.
2. uncanny
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. obstacles
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
4. scarcity
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
5. establish
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
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