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. stamina
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
2. degree
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
3. falter
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
4. fragrance
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
5. adversary
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
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