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
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
2. Unanimous
► The arrangement of events in time
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,
► To condescend to give or grant
3. Mutation
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Vaccine
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
5. Zoology
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
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