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. persistent
► Something small enough to escape casual notice.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► A glowing piece of coal or wood.
► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
2. defiance
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
3. cause
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The source or reason of an event or action
4. primarily
► Of a central nature, first and foremost
► To clarify or make something understandable
► What something does or is used for.
► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
5. acquire
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► The system of production and distribution and consumption.
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