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. conspicuous
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
2. versatile
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
3. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
4. counter
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A measurement one can compare to.
5. scarcity
► To make something by merging parts.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
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