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. Notarize
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
2. Chromosome
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
3. Vortex
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
4. Oligarchy
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Tautology
► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
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