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. commotion
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
2. relationship
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
3. jargon
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
4. barricade
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
5. conclude
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
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