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. Reciprocal
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Ziggurat
► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
► To proceed completely around:
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
3. Circumlocution
► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
4. Taxonomy
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Division into ordered groups or categories.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Photosynthesis
► Having a bad disposition; surly.
► To bring under control; conquer.
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
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