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. Homogeneous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.
► Of the same or similar nature or kind
2. Thermodynamics
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
3. Circumlocution
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► To proceed completely around:
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
4. Quotidian
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
5. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
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