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. construct
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
2. analyze
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
3. furtive
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Capable of doing many things competently
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
4. banish
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
5. guarantee
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
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