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. Enfranchise
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
2. Deciduous
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
► A diligent, dependable worker.
3. Recapitulate
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
4. Supercilious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
5. Usurp
► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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