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. attentive
► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
► To clarify or make something understandable
2. muster
► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
3. circumference
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
4. debris
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
5. abolish
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
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