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. Protagonist
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
2. Immune
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
3. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Commemorate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Sacrifice
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
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