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. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
2. jabber
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
3. uncanny
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
4. contributions
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► 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.
5. swagger
► 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.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
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