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. Rainforest
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
2. Maneuver
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Voracious
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
4. Gargoyle
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
5. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
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