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. Spectrum
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
2. Analogy
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Delegate
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
4. Hypocrisy
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Accentuate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
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