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. Evanescent
► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.
► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
2. Gamete
► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
3. Reparation
► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.
► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
4. Circumnavigate
► To proceed completely around:
► Having one’s true identity concealed.
► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
5. Fatuous
► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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