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. terse
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► Brief, concise, to the point.
2. various
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
3. function
► What something does or is used for.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
4. impending
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
5. source
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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