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. ominous
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► What something does or is used for.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
2. materialize
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
3. ensure
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. acquire
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
5. cunning
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
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