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. Decorum
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
2. Maneuver
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
3. Enthusiastic
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
4. Bizarre
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
5. Delegate
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
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