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. Boisterous
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
2. Cower
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
3. Symbiosis
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
4. Vacillate
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Tariff
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
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