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. method
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
2. jargon
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
3. relationship
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
4. majority
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► A particular geographic region.
► More than half (50%) of some group
5. persistent
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
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