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. similar
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
2. pristine
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Brief, concise, to the point.
3. counter
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
4. value
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
5. bluff
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
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