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. repugnant
► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
► The extent to which something matters; importance
► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. waver
► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.
► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
► To build or form something by assembling parts.
3. serenity
► Existing or occurring at the moment.
► The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
► More than half (50%) of some group
4. waft
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
5. cause
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► To make something by merging parts.
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