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. swagger
► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
► A state of confused and noisy disturbance
2. waft
► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
► To cause to float easily or gently through the air
3. jargon
► Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
► To start (a fire) or light (a torch).
4. clarify
► Emitting light; glowing brightly
► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
5. source
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
► To attempt to stop the progression of.
► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
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