Star in Education

Generate your own quiz here!

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. One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Cower
Vacillate
Exponent
Tundra

2. A schedule of prices or fees.

Typhoon
Deduction
Tariff
Tsunami

3. Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

Malignant
Undulate
Impertinent
Strategy

4. Having a backbone or spinal column.

Lichen
Metaphor
Ellipse
Vertebrate

5. One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Zoology
Omnivore
Aspire
Outrageous

CHAFE
DEFINITION: To feel irritated or impatient	FOUND IN THE NEWS: School districts have begun to chafe under the state's mandatory late-August starting date, saying that it makes it nearly impossible to accommodate the needs of students, parents and teachers. Dallas Morning News, 03/08/2010