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. Vaccine
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
2. Plateau
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Wretched
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
4. Bizarre
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
5. Virtuoso
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To condescend to give or grant
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