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. interpret
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
2. construct
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
3. minority
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
4. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
5. relationship
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
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