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. Sacrifice
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
2. Mutation
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
3. Repose
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
4. Embargo
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► Being without or almost without hope
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
5. Guerrilla
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
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