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. stamina
► A measurement one can compare to.
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
2. commotion
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
3. influence
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
4. serenity
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
5. falter
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
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