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. Light-Year
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
2. Deduction
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The arrangement of events in time
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
3. Cower
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
4. Quarantine
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
5. Tariff
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
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