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. Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
2. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
3. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
4. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
5. To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
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