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. egregious
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
► To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
2. pertinent
► Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant
► A particular geographic region.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)
3. knoll
► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
4. circumference
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
5. cunning
► Anything that may be possible; a possibility
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
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