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. foresight
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
2. function
► What something does or is used for.
► The result or outcome of a cause.
3. waver
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
4. circumference
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
5. evidence
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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