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. The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
2. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
3. An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.
4. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
5. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
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