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. foresight
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
2. narrate
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
3. subside
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► To make something by merging parts.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
4. potential
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
5. boundary
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
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