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. Deduction
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Accentuate
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
3. Nuisance
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
4. Alliteration
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
5. Tempo
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
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