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. To make smaller.
2. The brink of a dangerous situation.
3. Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
4. To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
5. To follow a winding course
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