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. banish
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
2. attentive
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
3. gusto
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
4. furtive
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
5. establish
► What something does or is used for.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
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