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. muster
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
2. recluse
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
3. detail
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► To completely engage the attention of.
4. primarily
► To completely engage the attention of.
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
5. analogy
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
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