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. ember
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
2. evidence
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
3. commotion
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
4. repugnant
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► A great amount or number, often of people.
5. reflection
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
► A process of compensation for losses.
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
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