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. waft
► The brink of a dangerous situation.
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
2. meander
► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it
3. impending
► Approaching; drawing near; about to happen
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
4. current
► Brief, concise, to the point.
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
5. versatile
► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
► Capable of doing many things competently
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