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
► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
2. Totalitarian
► Deception by trickery or sophistry.
3. Acumen
► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary
► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
► To bring under control; conquer.
4. Notarize
► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.
► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. Hemoglobin
► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.
► Noninterference in the affairs of others.
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