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. affect
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
2. symbolism
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
3. ensure
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
4. imperious
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
5. degree
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
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