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. imperious
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
2. dismal
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
► A great amount or number, often of people.
► Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.
3. falter
► The dividing line or location between two areas.
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
4. ignite
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► To set fire to (something), to light (something)
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To clarify or make something understandable
5. various
► A mixture of various ingredients or elements.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
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