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. Pulverize
► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
2. Impertinent
► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
3. Kilometer
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
4. Boisterous
► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.
► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
5. Salmonella
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
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