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. evidence
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
2. concoction
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
3. ominous