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. habitation
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
2. jabber
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
3. specimen
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
4. commotion
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.
5. influence
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
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