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. Accentuate
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The arrangement of events in time
2. Inference
► The arrangement of events in time
► Being without or almost without hope
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
3. Jaunty
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
4. Laconic
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
5. Deign
► To condescend to give or grant
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
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