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. Irony
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
2. Tempestuous
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
3. Fiduciary
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
4. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
5. Pecuniary
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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