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. engross
► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,
► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.
► Anything that assures a certain outcome.
► To completely engage the attention of.
2. aplomb
► Self-confidence; poise; composure.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
3. various
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
4. emerge
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.
5. area
► An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
► A particular geographic region.
► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
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