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. narrate
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
2. meander
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
3. materialize
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
4. engross
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
5. repugnant
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
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