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. Heritage
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.
2. Wretched
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
3. Exult
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Hypocrisy
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
5. Bizarre
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
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