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!
► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► The source or reason of an event or action
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