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. Ozone
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
2. Silhouette
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► Being without or almost without hope
3. Camouflage
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
5. Suffrage
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
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