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. versatile
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
2. recuperate
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
3. eavesdrop
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
4. impact
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A measurement one can compare to.
5. economy
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
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