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. Random
► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.
► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.
2. Commemorate
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
► To honor the memory of with a ceremony
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A schedule of prices or fees.
3. Quota
► A proportional part or share.
► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
4. Tranquility
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► The arrangement of events in time
► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.
5. Deign
► An embankment built to prevent flooding
► To condescend to give or grant
► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.
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