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. Flourish
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
2. Strategy
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
3. Alliteration
► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.
4. Typhoon
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Light-Year
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
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