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 gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
2. Bizarre, strange
3. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
4. T h e r a t e o f o c c u r r e n c e o f a n y t h i n g ; t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n i n c i d e n c e a n d t i m e p e r i o d .
5. Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
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