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. Lexicon
► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Plasma
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
3. Laissez faire
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Gauche
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
5. Hypotenuse
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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