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. Tempestuous
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
2. Recapitulate
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
3. Chicanery
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
4. Evanescent
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
5. Usurp
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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