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. Contradiction
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.
2. Vehement
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To make an accusation against.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
4. Metamorphosis
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.
5. Circumnavigate
► To renounce under oath; forswear.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To proceed completely around:
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