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. diminish
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
2. repugnant
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
3. furtive
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
4. ember
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
5. circumference
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
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