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. destination
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
2. detail
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
3. specimen
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To make something by merging parts.
4. banish
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
5. precipice
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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