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. conclude
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
2. ensure
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. unsightly
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
4. versatile
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
5. accomplish
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
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