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. Analogy
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
2. Tranquility
► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
3. Jaunty
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
4. Metaphor
► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
5. Fallacy
► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief
► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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