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. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
2. Light-Year
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
3. Commemorate
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
4. Salmonella
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
5. Polygon
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
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