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 art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
2. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
3. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
4. An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
5. A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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