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. aptitude
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. reduce
► The result or outcome of a cause.
► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
3. engross
► To completely engage the attention of.
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► A feeling of contempt or scorn.
4. obscure
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Quick and neat in action; skillful.
► Connection or association; the condition of being related.
5. apprehensive
► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
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