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. ensure
► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
2. document
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
3. serenity
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
► Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
4. significance
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
5. waft
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
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