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. Levee
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
2. Commemorate
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
3. Light-Year
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
4. Exult
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
5. Quarantine
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
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