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. commotion
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
2. banish
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
3. minority
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. meander
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
5. acquire
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
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