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. Labyrinth
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
2. Stereotype
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
3. Tsunami
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
► Being without or almost without hope
4. Levee
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
5. Gargoyle
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
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