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. Exult
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Cower
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
3. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
4. Chronology
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► The arrangement of events in time
5. Enthusiastic
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
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