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. Nanotechnology
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
2. Tectonic
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
3. Respiration
► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.
► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
4. Contradiction
5. Facetious
► To proceed completely around:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
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