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. Renegade
► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
2. Phloem
► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night
► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit
► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.
3. Decorum
► To stress or emphasize; intensify
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
4. Delegate
► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
5. Antibody
► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
► Being without or almost without hope
► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm
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