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. Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
3. To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
4. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
5. To make an accusation against.
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