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. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.
2. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
3. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
4. Everyday; commonplace.
5. The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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