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. relationship
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. outlandish
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
3. obstacles
► More than half (50%) of some group
► Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
4. serenity
► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
5. luminous
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
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