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. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
4. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
5. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.
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