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. Commemorate
► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.
► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
2. Quandary
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
3. Yacht
► The arrangement of events in time
► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation
4. Vertebrate
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
5. Typhoon
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
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