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. luminous
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
2. waver
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
3. translucent
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
4. brandish
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
► A particular geographic region.
5. bluff
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
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