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. construct
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
2. misgivings
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
3. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► A great amount or number, often of people.
4. sabotage
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
5. clarify
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
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