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. Lucid
► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:
2. Feckless
► Eating and drinking in moderation.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Obsequious
► A system of names used in an art or science:
► A diligent, dependable worker.
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
4. Nadir
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
5. Lugubrious
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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