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. stamina
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
2. recuperate
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► To clarify or make something understandable
3. accomplish
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
► A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
4. quell
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
5. monotonous
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
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