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. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Impertinent
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Boisterous
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
4. Delegate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
5. Voracious
► A proportional part or share.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
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