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. diminish
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
2. swarm
► In order of time from the earliest to the latest
► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
3. acquire
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► To make stable or firm; to confirm.
► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
4. misgivings
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
5. barricade
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The source or reason of an event or action
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