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. versatile
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements
2. quell
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
3. contortion
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
4. muster
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
5. exasperation
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
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