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. Lichen
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
2. Divulge
► A proportional part or share.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
3. Enthusiastic
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
4. Technique
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
5. Renaissance
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
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