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. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
2. Stereotype
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Technique
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
4. Chronology
► The arrangement of events in time
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Aspire
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
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