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. clarify
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. bluff
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► A particular geographic region.
3. ominous
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
4. grueling
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
5. current
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
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