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. Camouflage
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Omnivore
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Immune
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
4. Plateau
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Being without or almost without hope
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
5. Phloem
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
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