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. Anything that assures a certain outcome.
2. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
3. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.
5. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
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