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. Sect
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
2. Suffrage
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
3. Vacillate
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
4. Inference
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
5. Tumult
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
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