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. misgivings
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
2. engross
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► To clarify or make something understandable
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
3. muster
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
4. imperious
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
5. quell
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
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