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. Omnivore
► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.
2. Repose
► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
3. Nocturnal
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
4. Flourish
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
5. Vaccine
► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► Having a backbone or spinal column.
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