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. impending
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
2. multitude
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
3. bluff
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. engross
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
5. element
► A process of compensation for losses.
► To bump into or brush against while in motion.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
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