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. Omnipotent
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.
2. Chicanery
► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
► Lacking social polish; tactless.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.
3. Gerrymander
► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.
► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.
4. Fatuous
► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.
► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
5. Hubris
► To bring under control; conquer.
► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.
► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
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