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. Quandary
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
2. Ozone
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
3. Analogy
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
► The main character in a drama or other literary work.
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
4. Wretched
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
5. Decorum
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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