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. reference
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
2. acquire
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
3. minority
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
4. imperious
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
5. zeal
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
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