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. classify
► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
► Having an unvarying tone or pitch
► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed
► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.
2. egregious
► An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
► The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number
► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
3. ominous
► Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor
► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen
► The source or reason of an event or action
► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it
4. counter
► An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.
► To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.
► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
5. somber
► Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
► Open resistance; bold disobedience.
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