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. knoll
► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
2. persistent
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. replenish
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.
4. swagger
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
5. ominous
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
► Timid, fearful, overly cautious
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
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