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. translucent
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
2. outlandish
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
3. circumference
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
4. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
5. defiance
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
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