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. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
2. stamina
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
3. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
4. degree
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
5. subside
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The source or reason of an event or action
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
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