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. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.
► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
2. Subjugate
► To bring under control; conquer.
3. Mitosis
► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
4. Diffident
► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► A system of names used in an art or science:
5. Bellicose
► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
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