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. analogy
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
2. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
3. effect
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
4. meander
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
5. serenity
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
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