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. Dialogue
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
2. Chronology
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► The arrangement of events in time
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
3. Boycott
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Being without or almost without hope
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
4. Spectrum
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Undulate
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
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