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. Decorum
► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).
► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct
2. Impertinent
► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.
► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.
► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
3. Strategy
► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.
► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
4. Tariff
► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline
► A schedule of prices or fees.
► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
► A proportional part or share.
5. Tempo
► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.
► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace
► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
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