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. observe
► A particular geographic region.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
2. exasperation
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
3. compromise
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
4. detail
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
5. potential
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
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