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. Boisterous
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Bizarre
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
3. Flourish
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Renaissance
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
5. Random
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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