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. Deleterious
► Having a harmful effect; injurious.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
2. Temblor
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
3. Tempestuous
► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Belie
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To picture falsely; misrepresent.
5. Interpolate
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.
► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.
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