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. Contradiction
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.
2. Enervate
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
3. Paradigm
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality
4. Irony
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.
5. Nadir
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
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